3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (75+ words) With excursions into space becoming more frequent, and the reasons behind them more commercial, the industry is exploring ways to generate electricity in space at lower cost and larger scale. And these requirements make ‘terrestrial’ silicon PV technology difficult to…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (328+ words) All three events have been running for decades, which shows both the longstanding importance of power systems to space operations and the depth of expertise that has developed around them. However, production capacities for III-V solar devices remain quite limited....

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (464+ words) South Korea is expected to install 3.5 GW of solar this year, according to a report from the Korea Eximbank. The state-owned export credit agency’s report adds the country installed 3.1 GW of solar in 2025, meaning the market is set to grow…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (197+ words) Ten states in the United States have passed laws permitting plug-in solar, with more to follow imminently. Low-income households, renters and temporary workers under pressure from high electricity bills are welcoming plug-in solar as a low-cost, portable and convenient solution....

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (419+ words) Rocket Lab Corporation has announced the production release of its inverted metamorphic (IMM) Apex solar cell, a high-efficiency space power solution designed to eliminate reliance on germanium substrates and avoid critical-mineral supply chain bottlenecks. In an IMM structure, the semiconductor layers…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (332+ words) Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. has established a development laboratory for space-grade copper indium gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar cells in the United States. According to an update published by the company, the laboratory, located at the University of California,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (319+ words) Suriname’s national public utility EnergieBedrijven Suriname (EBS) is searching for developers to carry out solar-storage minigrids and water infrastructure projects in rural areas of the country. Available tender details split the procurement exercise into two lots. The first lot covers…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (286+ words) Indian state-owned power utility NTPC has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for the development and installation of grid-connected battery energy storage systems (BESS) using sodium-ion battery technology at its existing thermal power plants and office buildings. The pilot program will…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (320+ words) Chile recorded 2,680 GWh of curtailed solar and wind generation in the first seven months of 2026, the highest level recorded for the January-to-July period, according to the July statistical bulletin from the Chilean renewable energy association Acera. The figure represents a…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (228+ words) A consortium led by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has developed thicker battery electrodes that could increase cell-level energy density by 10% to 15% without adding weight. Oliver Fitz, group leader for battery cell technology at Fraunhofer ISE,…...