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Argentina superstar Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international football on Monday, ending 21 years of national-team duty that were capped by winning the World Cup in 2022, securing his place in the pantheon of the game's greatest ever players.

The global solar PV O&M market reached 348 GW in 2025, with the 15 largest providers controlling 57% of managed capacity as consolidation accelerated. NovaSource remained the global leader, while rapid portfolio growth reshaped provider rankings and regional markets.

China has begun taxing lithium-ion batteries at 2% from Sept. 1, 2026, ending a decade-long exemption; the rate will rise to 4% in September 2027, while emerging technologies such as sodium-ion and solid-state batteries remain temporarily exempt. The tax applies to cells, packs and battery clusters—not complete BESS—and is expected to modestly raise domestic storage costs, while directly exported batteries remain exempt.

China has unveiled a new ecological protection plan for the 2026–2030 period, establishing concrete environmental targets as part of its initiative for green modernization.

Air China introduced China's domestically developed C919 large passenger aircraft on its daily Beijing-Ulan Bator route on Wednesday, marking the narrowbody jet's first international commercial flight.

Regulators in China are calling on domestic manufacturers to end destructive below-cost competition but are yet to impose a formal price floor.

Study by the Electricity and Energy Innovation finds choosing a clean energy pathway to meeting America’s electricity demand in 2030 would cost $5 billion less than meeting the demand with fossil fuels

Combined with stricter energy efficiency standards, the new measure signal Beijing’s push to reduce overcapacity, promote advanced technologies, and favor more competitive, higher-efficiency producers across the solar value chain.

Commercial solar carports represent an immense, high-growth market opportunity, but their complex heavy construction demands rigorous engineering, upfront soil risk pricing, and specialized expertise to protect thin margins from catastrophic project failures.

Solar panel imports to the Philippines are continuing to grow as residential electricity tariffs rise to the highest in southeast Asia, with an estimated 3 GW of imported Chinese panels currently destined for the country.

China has introduced mandatory national standards tightening energy consumption and efficiency requirements across the PV value chain, from polysilicon to modules and inverters. The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, are expected to reshape manufacturing, procurement and project selection toward higher-efficiency, lower-energy-intensity products.

The weekly average electricity price stood in excess of €115 ($131.08)/MWh across most major European markets last week after much of the continent dealt with a heatwave, AleaSoft says.

Four Chinese authorities have jointly issued Order No. 42, the Measures for the Minimum Share of Renewable Energy Consumption and the Implementation System for Renewable Energy Power Consumption Responsibility Weights on Monday, 22 June 2026.

As Europe’s most attractive rooftops and most favourable sites fill up with solar, a new logic is taking hold: the dual use of land. After agrivoltaics, floating PV and building-integrated solar, it is now the turn of infrastructure such as roads, railways, canals and dikes to become a solar resource.