LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Global electricity generation from solar farms has exceeded generation from wind farms since May, marking the longest ever stretch when solar power has been the ...

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 ...

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that the global peak of solar output in 2025 occurred on April 29, at 06:00 UTC, estimated at 539 GW. A new analysis from ...

Nigeria has emerged as Africa’s second-largest importer of solar and storage products, with estimated annual project spending ...

The world added 474TWh of new solar capacity in 2024. Image: Ember Climate. The world’s cumulative installed solar generation capacity has doubled between 2022 and 2024, to reach over 2,000TWh, which ...

The Energy Information Agency has now released data on the performance of the US’s electric grid over the first 11 months of 2024 and will be adding the final month soon (and a month is very little ...

Solar power generation in Europe is set for a record year, if first-quarter solar output is anything to go by. Electricity generation from solar power farms jumped by 32% in January to March this year ...

Solar PV generation dipped by almost 17% month-on-month in the NEM. Image: European Energy. In May 2025, utility-scale and rooftop solar PV dipped by 579GWh month-on-month in Australia’s National ...

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 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 ...

Nersa has clarified the registration requirements for residential solar and small-scale embedded generation installations, following concerns raised by Outa about unclear regulations.

South Africa’s energy regulator has moved to calm the growing public anxiety around the registration of rooftop solar ...