Amidst reports of Germany contemplating trade barriers to protect solar PV manufacturers from falling module prices, Europe’s solar power sector association SolarPower Europe (SPE) strongly advises against any such step that can have adverse im.
Come 2025 and solar energy will become the cheapest clean energy option for fossil-fuel reliant Bangladesh to meet its growing demand for electricity, thanks to continued technology cost reduction.
The September 1, 2023 innovation auction in Germany was oversubscribed with bids coming in only for solar and storage projects, while none were offered for wind energy. Bavaria alone secured 258 MW out of the 408 MW awarded in this round.
Europe continues to be the largest buyer of Chinese solar modules, taking in 47% of total exports in August 2023, according to the latest analysis of InfoLink Consulting.
Renfe, the state-owned railway company in Spain, will construct a pilot solar PV plant with 20 MW capacity to supply traction energy for its trains.
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar is foraying into the Central Asian market of Tajikistan to explore the development of a minimum 500 MW clean energy capacity in the ‘landlocked and water-abundant’ country. It will include the development of ground-mounte.
The New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has invited bids for the development of a solar farm with 12 MW AC capacity on build-ready basis. It says this will transform a former iron ore mine in St.
The Japanese partnership of ENEOS Corporation and Sojitz Corporation have commissioned their 1st large scale solar power plant in Australia with 204 MW DC installed capacity in Queensland.
Atlas Renewable Energy, the Latin American renewable energy company, has commissioned around 600 MW of solar PV capacity in Brazil. It is contracted under long-term agreements with Unipar and Anglo American.
Latin America-focused renewable energy group Atlas Renewable Energy has promoted the Country Manager for Brazil, Luis Pita, to global chief commercial officer (CCO) position.
RCT Power GmbH has launched a ‘Giga-Fab’ in Germany’s Augsburg region with 2 new production lines with a capacity to roll out around 5,000 hybrid solar inverters per month. The company will manufacture RCT Power DC 8 and DC 10 solar inverters on the new lines with an area of around 8,000 m2.
RoboTechnik bags TP Solar’s solar equipment order; Tata Steel announces 10.8 MW floating solar plant; Sterling & Wilson Renewable Energy Limited to build 300 MW AC PV plant for NTPC REL; TPREL to install 41 MW solar plant for PV manufacturing; .
Indian clean technology company Axis Energy Ventures and Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) plan to launch their 2nd renewable energy joint venture (JV) in India.
The EUPD Research of Germany forecasts the US to install 233 GW DC of new solar PV capacity between 2023 and 2028, thanks mainly to the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
TotalEnergies has acquired Ombrea, an agrivoltaics company in its home country France under whose brand it plans to venture deep into this innovative PV application globally. In business since 2016, Ombrea has built and operationalized around 10 ag.
Estonia has become home to a building integrated PV (BIPV) manufacturing facility which its operator Solarstone calls the ‘largest’ of its kind in Europe by production capacity. The 60 MW factory in Viljandi can assemble 13,000 integrated solar panels/year.
