Americas

The California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee has amended Assembly Bill 942 (AB 942) and removed a net metering amendment that would have affected residential solar owners’ rates when acquiring a home or property.

Corporate funding in the solar sector fell by 39% in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period last year.

Swedish solar developer OX2 has submitted plans for a 150MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland to Australia’s EPBC Act.

US IPP Geronimo Power has started construction at its 250MW Portage Solar project in its home state of Wisconsin.

Virtual power plants are emerging as a potentially critical means of meeting the growing power demands from data centres in the US.

D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has started construction at a 150MW solar-plus-storage project in the US state of New Mexico.

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has initiated an investigation into the imports of polysilicon and its derivatives.

Solar and storage developer MN8 Energy has raised US$575 million to refinance three PV projects in North Carolina, Kentucky and Illinois.

OpenSolar has launched a new model to help US rooftop solar installers reduce costs and thrive despite the loss of the 30% IRA tax credit.

Analyst Wood Mackenzie has forecast that solar PV and wind installations in the US will be 100GW lower than expected between 2025 and 2030 with the removal of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) incentives.