Can you imagine that highways are now participating in the electricity and ancillary services markets? On May 19th, Shaanxi Transportation Holding Group successfully obtained official provincial-level access qualifications for virtual power plant business, acquiring full qualifications for load dispatching, distributed energy aggregation and management, and power resource optimization, entering a ...
According to a report by energy think tank Ember, the Philippines has become the second-largest market for Chinese photovoltaic (PV) module exports, which are expected to drive significant growth in its rooftop PV market. China's PV module exports to the Philippines reached a new record in 2026. To date, 4.133 GW of Chinese PV modules have arrived at Philippine ports. More than 2 GW of Chin...
The German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) has called for a reform of the country’s current inheritance tax treatment of agricultural land leased to ground-mounted solar PV. Kerstin Andreae, chair of the BDEW executive board, said that if agricultural land is leased for PV systems, it would no longer be considered agricultural or forestry assets for tax purposes. &nb...
Global solar portfolios are increasingly producing fragmented and incomplete data, which can impact project performance and financial returns. Research from Sandia National Laboratories – one of the US Department of Energy’s network of research labs – shows a broad range of inconsistencies and a lack of standardised processes across data collection and sharing in solar PV ...
