Markets & Finance

US President Donald Trump has banned the import of inverters, transformers and other power equipment that pose a potential risk to US grid security.

Germany-headquartered inverter manufacturer SMA Solar is expanding its Large Scale and Project Solutions business to cater for the fast-growing data centre market.

US eBOS manufacturer Shoals has been granted a successful verdict and US$96 million in damages by a court in North Carolina in its intellectual property dispute with fellow US manufacturer Voltage.

JinkoSolar shipped 15.9GW of modules in the second quarter of this year, which represents a 34.4% year-on-year decline.

UL Solutions warns that US plug-in PV faces key safety challenges, with UL 3700 aiming to address fire, shock and circuit-overload risks.

California-based start-up Tandem PV has been awarded a US Department of Energy grant to accelerate the commercial scale-up of its perovskite PV technology.

California’s Assembly has unanimously voted in favour (73-0 and six no votes registered or NVR) of a balcony solar bill, Senate Bill 868.

WElink Energy Portugal 2, the owner of Portugal’s largest solar PV project, has entered administration, owing debts of US$77.7 million.

ArcLight has launched Anchor Point Transmission, a new independent transmission company targeting investment in high-voltage infrastructure.

Bidding for Tender 11 will open on 27 August 2026 and close on 22 October 2026, seeking nearly 1.8GW of renewable energy generation in Western Australia's Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM).