Solar manufacturers are facing rising cost pressure as silver paste now accounts for up to 30% of total cell production costs. OPIS analyst Hanwei Wu tells pv magazine that module producers currently ...

A new Perspectives research study on the future of the global PV supply chain outlines how module prices, performance, and lifetimes could evolve over the next 25 years. The work reflects a ...

The use of POE as an encapsulant in TOPCon module construction could limit the effects of degradation on the module’s ...

Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the ...

Solar power has a dark side: panels are still built to be thrown away, and we risk creating a mountain of waste that locks ...

A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can't, like ...

Plug-in solar, also known as balcony solar, is a popular option in Europe, and it's now starting to be introduced in the ...

In general, solar PV deposited on glass is significantly more efficient than thin film, but this is the price you pay for off-world deployments. Paul Warley, CEO of Colorado-based Ascent Solar, told ...

In December 2025, the winning scale of domestic photovoltaic (PV) module bids (including shortlisted ones) reached 8.45GW, with LONGi, Tongwei and ...