High Raw Material Prices May Jeopardize REPowerEU?
Wood Mackenzie Report Claims Europe Must Aggressively Expand Local Solar Supply Chain To Achieve REPowerEU Goals
Analysts with Wood Mackenzie believe the European Union’s (EU) solar ambitions under its flagship REPowerEU program may suffer with the rise in prices for raw materials and suggest that it would need to create and aggressively expand its local solar supply chain to meet the targets.
Day 2 Highlights From Intersolar Europe 2022
SPE Calls For 20 GW European PV Manufacturing, 150 MW Deal For Sofarsolar & New Products From Meyer Burger, TrinaTracker
Intersolar Europe 2022 day 2 was one again full of exciting new developments with SPE calling for 20 GW annual solar manufacturing along the value chain; Meyer Burger presented upgraded version of its rooftile; TrinaTracker launches SuperTrack; Sofarsolar lands 150 MW order.
European Company Places Order With Singulus
Singulus Technologies Lands Contract For Wet Chemical Machines For HJT Solar Cells
German solar PV equipment manufacturer Singulus Technologies has been contracted to supply its wet-chemical machines for heterojunction (HJT) solar cells to an unidentified major European energy company that’s planning to construct a new fab with ‘several GW’ capacity.
ISC Konstanz To Help French Solar Gigafab Go TOPCon
Solar Cell Start-up Carbon & ISC Konstanz Enter Technology Agreement For TOPCon Solar Modules
Germany’s International Solar Energy Research Center (ISC) Konstanz and French solar technology startup Carbon, with 5 GW production plans, have formalized their planned collaboration with the signing of a technology agreement for TOPCon solar technology.
Meyer Burger Announces New CFO Appointment
Markus Nikles To Join Meyer Burger As New CFO As Company Concentrates on German Expansion
European solar cell and module manufacturer Meyer Burger Technology AG has found a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the group in Markus Nikles who will join the position officially on September 1, 2022.
Largest European Solar Glass Maker Interfloat To Be Acquired
India’s Borosil Renewables’ Take Over Of Interfloat Group of Germany To Grow Its Solar Glass Capacity By 300 TPD
India’s only solar glass manufacturer Borosil Renewables Limited (BRL) is set to acquire 100% stake in what it terms as the ‘largest manufacturer of solar glass’ in Europe, the Interfloat Group which would scale up its output to 750 tons per day (TPD).
Europe PV News Snippets
Enel Green Power’s 3 GW Bifacial HJT Plans Secure EU Funding & More From Belgium, EPS, Helexia, Statkraft, IRENA
Enel gets €118 million grant from EU for Italian fab; VAT for solar panels in Belgium lowered; Gruner Serbia signs commercial prosumer contract with EPS; Helexia acquires Cap Sud Group; Statkraft gets €1.3 billion revolving credit facility for RE; IRENA & CRUL sign MoU.
‘1 TW Of Total EU Solar Capacity By 2030’
SPE Sees Potential For 39 GW Solar Power Capacity For EU In Coming Winter To Disinvest From Russian Gas
European solar PV lobby association SolarPower Europe (SPE) says as much as 39 GW of solar PV capacity can be added to the European Union’s (EU) energy generation capacity for the coming winter alone, albeit with the right framework ‘to support i.
Enerplan’s Solar Emergency Plan
France Must Raise Annual Solar Target To 10 GW By 2025 & Encourage PV Gigafactories
Local solar PV association of France, Enerplan has proposed a Solar Emergency Plan to be implemented nationally with an annual deployment target of 10 GW per year in 2025 and a minimum of 5 GW per year domestic production of solar panels, cells and silicon.
5 GW Solar Module Fab Plans For France
French Solar Start-Up Carbon Plans Gigafactory For TOPCon & IBC Solar Modules
A new solar technology start-up by the name Carbon has plans to establish a ‘gigafactory’ in France by 2025, with 5 GW annual capacity of solar modules based on TOPCon & interdigitated back contact (IBC) cells, with backing from Germa.
Solar Tracker Fab Announced In Italy
Enel & Comal To Establish 1 GW Italian Solar Tracker Manufacturing Facility
European energy giant Enel has announced a partnership with Italian solar power company Comal to build a solar tracker manufacturing facility in Italy with up to 1 GW annual capacity inside the thermoelectric oil and gas fired Montalto di Castro Powe.
Enphase Ships 1.1 GW in Q4/2021
As Financials Improve, Enphase Plans Microinverter Contract Manufacturing In Europe
US based solar microinverter supplier Enphase Energy, Inc has revealed its plans to expand its existing production capacity for microinverters with the addition of a new contract manufacturing facility in Europe, by the end of this year, which its Pr.
Developers Demand EU Solar Industrial Strategy
Eight European Solar Developers Write To EU Demanding Policy For 20 GW Solar Manufacturing
Akuo Energy, Amarenco, BayWa, EDF, Enel Green Power (EGP), Engie Iberdrola and Vattenfall have written a letter to the European Commission (EC) demanding a European industrial strategy that can lead the block to establish 20 GW solar PV manufacturing.
Fraunhofer ISE On European Modules
European PV Panels Have Less CO2 Than Chinese
German research institute Fraunhofer ISE believes silicon solar PV modules produced in European Union (EU) come with 40% less CO2 produced per kWh during the manufacturing process, with PV electricity compared to those produced in China.
300 MW Module Facility In Germany
Module & Battery Storage Fabs For Solarwatt
German solar panel manufacturer Solarwatt has expanded its module production capacity by 300 MW with the launch of a new state-of-the-art line in Dresden, calling it the largest production facility for glass-glass solar modules in Europe.
Meyer Burger’s Module Fab In Germany Now Open
Meyer Burger Officially Opens 400 MW Solar Module Production Fab In Germany’s Frieberg; Plans To Expand Capacity To 1 GW Now
A few days after officially opening its 400 MW solar cell fab in Germany’s Thalheim, solar cell and module producer Meyer Burger has now announced the opening of its module factory, also with 400 MW annual capacity in Germany’s Frieberg, Saxony.
Meyer Burger Solar Cell Production Plant Now Operational
Meyer Burger’s 400 MW Solar Cell Fab In Germany Online; To Produce Up To 200,000 Made In Europe Solar Cells A Day Once Fully Ramped Up; Module Factory With 400 MW Annual Capacity To Open On May 26, 2021
Meyer Burger Technology AG has officially started its solar cell fab in Thalheim, Germany with an annual installed capacity of 400 MW.
Sweden’s Exeger To Expand Solar Cell Production Capacity
Flexible Solar Cell Supplier Exeger Raises $38 Million To Finance New Solar Cell Factory In Sweden With A ’10-Fold’ Capacity By 2023
Sweden headquartered printable and flexible solar cell manufacturer Exeger is expanding its dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) production capacity with a new solar cell factory in Stockholm for which it has now raised $38 million financing.
5 GW Vertically Integrated PV Production Plans For Spain
Newly Founded Greenland Gigafactory Planning To Develop Vertically Integrated Solar PV Manufacturing With 5 GW Annual Capacity In Spain, With Fraunhofer ISE Providing Technical Support
One of the solar star markets of Europe, Spain may get 5 GW worth of vertically integrated solar PV manufacturing capacity located in Seville, Andalucia over the next 2 years, revealed German research and development institute Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).
