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German solar research centre the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has signed an agreement with Himachal Pradesh University to pursue research into floating solar PV.

Avaada has secured approximately US$1.3 billion in debt to fund a 2.15GW portfolio of hybrid and solar projects in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

First Solar reported net sales of US$1.06 billion for Q2 2026, down 4% year-on-year, while reaffirming its full-year 2026 guidance.

German energy company RWE has sold its US distributed clean energy generation business to Goldman Sachs.

Singapore-based renewable energy developer PCG Global has closed its Pre-Series A financing round, with GenZero, a fully owned decarbonisation investment platform under Temasek, acting as the lead investor.

Australia's installed cost of utility-scale solar has not fallen at the pace required to reach the country's “ultra-low-cost solar” (UCLS) ambitions, despite continued progress in cell and module efficiency.

Queensland and Northern Territory have refused to back a national framework requiring large data centres to underwrite new renewable energy.

Origis Energy has built the first 1GW of solar PV capacity at its planned massive 2GW Rockhound solar-plus-storage facility in Texas.

EDPR has agreed to sell an 80% equity stake in a 384MW solar-plus-storage portfolio in the US to a Private equity firm Ares Infrastructure.

German chemical producer Wacker Chemie has recorded a significant decline in its earnings from polysilicon, due to the adverse market conditions in the solar sector.