Researchers and startups worldwide are developing advanced solar technologies, such as perovskite-silicon tandem cells and orb-shaped panels, to significantly enhance efficiency and energy production.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that solar and wind will lead US power generation growth for the next two years in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. As a result of new ...

Solar energy has long been considered to have great potential and solar panels based on silicon have been on the market for over 30 years. But first-generation silicon solar panels are at the end of ...

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has clarified which residential solar and other small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) installations need to be registered with local municipalities or ...

Solar electricity generation has surpassed wind power as the top utility-scale renewable energy source since May 2023, due to higher output during peak summer months. Wind power is likely to reclaim ...

The 400MW Stubbo solar PV power plant in New South Wales, Australia. Image Flow Power. December 2025 marked a pivotal month for solar energy generation in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) ...

Southern utilities are turning to the sun to help meet higher electricity demand with plans to more than double solar power generation by 2027, according to a new study on solar generation in the ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) are each investing €100 million ($110.8 million) in small- and medium-scale solar and onshore wind projects in South ...

South African power utility Eskom has simplified the registration process for PV systems operating under the Small-Scale Embedded Generation (SSEG) scheme. “The major change, finalised last month and ...