China’s solar industry is entering a more challenging phase following years of record expansion. The sector is currently grappling with slower installation rates, shifts to market-based electricity pricing, significant manufacturing overcapacity, and a rapid transition toward higher-efficiency technologies. Some experts say that the solar industry in the country is being … [continued]
So much to share with you. First, we have the overall picture from the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO’s) latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) report. As gentailers increase their charges to stay profitable, Australia is producing record renewable energy output. Couple that with the number and size of domestic batteries … [continued]
South Africa went through a rough patch a couple of years ago when the country’s available electricity generation capacity was not sufficient to meet demand. This resulted in South Africa’s electric utility company, Eskom, implementing an electricity rationing schedule, infamously known as load shedding. This led to many homes and … [continued]
The Q2 2026 edition of “The 50 States of Solar” report finds that 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, took some type of distributed solar policy action during Q2 2026, with the greatest number of actions continuing to address net metering policies (53), community solar policies (48) … [continued]
Across the country, governors and state lawmakers are facing the same challenge: electricity demand is rising, power bills are increasing, and constituents expect solutions. Increasingly, policymakers from both parties are arriving at the same answer. Solar and energy storage are among the fastest, most cost-effective resources available to add new … [continued]
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — The rapid transition of Southeast Asia toward clean energy is moving from the early adoption of electric mobility to a regional industrialization effort. When the 4th ASEAN Battery Technology Conference opens next month in Sepang, Malaysia, the focus will pivot from policy framework proposals toward the engineering … [continued]
For more than a decade, it’s been clear that Americans pay much more for rooftop solar power than Europeans, Australians, and others. We have much higher “soft costs,” including much higher “customer acquisition” costs. Part of it, as well, is the sales process and sales tactics leading to … not … [continued]
Florion, a first-of-its-kind South African energy intelligence business co-founded by Robert Futter, has launched in South Africa. Futter brings more than 20 years of advisory experience in energy, infrastructure, and project finance. Florion says the South African energy market is changing based on technology interventions, market reform/liberalisation, and flexible “complex” … [continued]
A solar rooftop installation in Madhya Pradesh, India that helps to cumulatively produce 19.88 GW of power. (Photo from ADBInstitute.)
I assume it’s no coincidence the World Bank made announcements of new support for clean energy in both India and Pakistan on the same day. If you’re going to support one, you better support the other! Anyway, the good news is that the World Bank is facilitating much more clean … [continued]
The quite rural Porterville Unified School District (PUSD) in California, which sits between Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Los Angeles and Sacramento, has decided to go all-in on cleantech. It is getting solar, battery energy storage, and also electric school buses. The school district is working with ForeFront Power … [continued]
