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Glass-integrated perovskite solar cells are displayed in the Panasonic booth during the Ceatech event in Chiba in 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 20, 2026
Panasonic speeds up efforts to turn windows into solar panels
Panasonic is targeting windows and exterior walls with “power-generating glass” that can be customized in size, transparency and design.
Power-generating wind turbines in Bac Lieu province, Vietnam. The country is sitting on significant numbers of stalled but largely finished renewable generation projects.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2026
Vietnam can’t beat China with the lights out
Vietnam’s stalled renewable projects threaten its ability to meet soaring power demand and maintain its role as a key alternative to China.
Some solar project developers are turning to defunct golf courses as such sites can accommodate large-scale developments while limiting disruption to natural landscapes.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2026
Japan has no space for solar farms apart from old golf courses
Solar farms need good sunlight, access to the power grid and to be fairly close to residential areas. Many golf courses tick those boxes.
Frequent bouts of extreme weather are making it harder to accurately predict generation from wind turbines and solar panels, according to a new report.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 21, 2026
Extreme weather upends sunshine patterns in major solar markets
Parts of Western Europe and Southeast Asia got more sun than usual this summer while Eastern India and parts of the U.S. Midwest got less.
Solar panels at the Dechencholing solar farm in Bhutan's capital city of Thimphu on Aug. 30.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Sep 17, 2026
Hydropowered Bhutan explores solar to diversify and meet growing demand
Solar projects represent a new direction for Bhutan, where hydropower exports account for up to 15% of gross domestic product.
Sheep amongst solar panels in the Las Rozas solar park, operated by Zelestra near Seville, Spain, in June 2025.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Sep 8, 2026
Spain’s renewables experience shows battery storage needed for decarbonization
Massive investment in large batteries and the power grid is badly needed, and investors and foreign governments are paying close attention.
Millions of people are using their solar panels and batteries to generate energy and sell excess back to the grid.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 4, 2026
Almost anyone can make money selling electricity with AI, batteries and solar panels
Millions of people are using their solar panels and batteries to generate energy and sell excess back to the grid.
The first agrivoltaics projects were started in Japan in 2013. Operators were granted approval to install solar panels on farmland as a temporary conversion of land use, on the condition that crop yields exceed 80% of the local average.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2026
Stricter rules put Japanese agrivoltaics projects at a crossroads
The stricter rules come amid cases in which solar power companies rented abandoned farmland and failed to sufficiently engage in agricultural activities.
Solar panels at the Yinchuan Fourth Photovoltaic Power Station in Yinchuan, in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Aug. 25
WORLD / Society
Aug 31, 2026
How the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is reshaping global energy use
By dramatically raising fossil-fuel prices, the conflict has also been pushing governments, companies and consumers towards renewable energy.
Solar panels in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2026
Japan to end subsidies for solar panels
Installation costs will remain eligible for aid in principle, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Floating solar panels are pictured in Lingwu, in northern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous region on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Aug 16, 2026
China’s 32,000-kilometer solar trade route that battled U.S. tariffs
The route let companies to obscure work done in China and Indonesia to deliver solar panels to the U.S. without tariffs.
A worker inspects a solar panel at a factory in Dalton, Georgia, in November 2023.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Aug 8, 2026
Trump’s homegrown solar push risks widening green divide
Trump announced a plan to impose tariffs and minimum prices on imported polysilicon used in semicondictors and solar panels.
U.S. solar manufacturing has expanded since Congress created tax incentives in 2022.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 5, 2026
U.S. weighs polysilicon tariffs to counter China in solar and chips
The decision, expected to come later this month, aims to protect U.S. polysilicon factories from growing Chinese ambitions in the chip supply chain.
Workers clean photovoltaic solar panels outside Fiotex Cotspin cotton yarn manufacturing factory at Rajkot, Gujarat, India, on April 14.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 23, 2026
India’s solar push idles factories unable to shake reliance on China
Domestic manufacturers face waits of up to eight months for domestic components to replace Chinese imports.
The roofs of new residential homes in Greehithe, England, on Monday
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2026
Solar is sending European power prices on a roller-coaster
Daily power-price swings are getting more severe as a flood of solar is quickly followed by a supply crunch.
Pedestrians pass the nuclear plant that sits on the banks of the Padma river in western Bangladesh.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 12, 2026
A nuclear debut in Bangladesh tests developing world’s atomic shift
The project is an audacious bet that nuclear power can meet the needs of an industrializing economy without breaking the bank — other developing nations will be watching closely.
Wind turbines generate energy from strong easterly winds on the Shonai Plain in Yamagata Prefecture. Despite the oil crisis caused by conflict near the Strait of Hormuz, and concerns instability in the region could continue to impact supply and the price of imports, the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi does not seem to be drawing on the war as a pretext to hasten progress toward Japan's renewable goals.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jul 3, 2026
Iran war exposed, but hasn’t changed, 91AV原创 reliance on imported oil
Japan received over 93% of its oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz last year before it was effectively closed.
91AV原创 push into space-based solar power could reshape the future of global energy and position the country ahead of the U.S. and China in the next phase of the space race.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 31, 2026
A space race the Land of the Rising Sun is winning
Japan takes the lead in space-based solar power exploration.
Ambitious plans for space-based solar power face steep costs and engineering hurdles, making them far less practical than rapidly advancing terrestrial renewables.
COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2026
Solar in space is a solution in search of a problem
The thinking behind space solar makes some sense: The sun doesn’t always shine on Earth, which means solar panels on the ground aren’t always gathering energy.
The Las Rozas solar park, operated by Zelestra, near Seville, Spain, on June 18, 2025. In the coming months, about 40 terawatt-hours of solar-generated electricity, enough to power Greater London for a year, could go to waste in Europe.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
May 14, 2026
Solar power is so big in Europe that electricity is being wasted
A record amount of electricity is being wasted because grids can’t handle the surge in output.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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