In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that a developing El Niño is expected to strengthen through 2026, shifting global solar irradiance patterns with regional gains in India, eastern Australia, and parts of Africa and Central America, and losses in South America and East Asia. These impacts reflect established historical patterns from past strong events, where circulation changes redistribute cloud cover and rainfall rather than uniformly increasing or decreasing solar resource.