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Stories with reporting from pv magazine, ranked by what is gaining ground now. Each story links to the original articles.
Cybersecurity experts advising the European Commission urge restrictions on PV components and software from high-risk third-country suppliers across all market segments. They also recommend third-party certification for inverters under the Cyber Resilience Act.
South Africa plans to procure 4.6 GW of battery storage and gas-fired power plants to reduce curtailment and improve the reliability of electricity supply.
Brilliant Matters and HeiQ report semi-transparent organic solar cells with efficiencies up to 12.04% and fully printed modules reaching 10.2%, using the BM10 OPV platform and silver nanowire electrodes. They are targeting commercial availability in 2028.
Sungrow patches an authentication flaw in its iSolarCloud platform after researchers gain access to connected devices. The issue prompts an emergency update.
A discussion with S&P Global Energy’s Edurne Zoco covers persistent global photovoltaic supply-chain overcapacity, consolidation, regional price divergence, China’s efficiency standards, trade policy, and prospects in inverter and battery-storage markets.
Tata Power and Norway-based Ocean Sun have partnered to test membrane-based floating solar technology in India. One account specifies a 300 kWp pilot, while another places it at a Maharashtra reservoir.
Italian startup Syntropia develops a 535 W photovoltaic-thermal module that combines electricity generation with heat recovery, producing 1.4 kW of thermal output. Recent tests show combined energy conversion efficiency of 66.8%; the company is also developing a system combining the modules with geothermal probes, heat pumps and energy management software.
An international team of 73 researchers establishes best practices for measuring indoor photovoltaic devices’ performance, reliability and stability. The guidelines seek to make results more consistent across laboratories and support the technology’s path toward commercialization.
Hungary extends the deadline for households in its 2021 EU-funded rooftop solar program to complete projects until Oct. 31. Complex installations may be closed once two components are complete.
Researchers in Italy develop an air-source steam-generating heat pump that combines solar PV, battery storage, and grid power, optimizing electricity use to lower heat-production costs. Higher electricity prices favor greater PV and battery integration, while strong solar resources improve self-sufficiency and economic performance.
An on-the-ground tour spotlights Maxxen’s battery energy storage system factory in Europe.
Romanian EPC contractor Enevo presents SentryOT, a cybersecurity platform for solar, storage and grid systems. The platform translates network threats into terms energy engineers can understand.
