Solitek plans to build a new 600 MW solar PV panel production factory in Italy. It expects an investment of nearly €50 million to bring the fab online.
Qcells says its solar supplier HAGA will build a new advanced materials manufacturing fab in Georgia to become the sole US producer to roll out EVA films.
Enel Green Power (EGP) has started construction on a 170 MW solar PV project equipped with bifacial panels and trackers in Italy’s Viterbo province.
Duke Energy has started building its 1st floating solar PV project on pilot basis on the cooling pond of its Hines Energy Complex in Bartow.
Sweden’s Energy Market Inspectorate is contemplating allowing network operators to set their own electricity network fee for small scale power producers.
Federal Council of Switzerland has approved amendments that simplify the approval process for large scale solar PV systems.
US can achieve its decarbonization goals faster and reduce climate change faster if solar panel manufacturing can fully return to the US by 2035.
New solar PV capacity addition in the US dropped 16% YoY to 20.2 GW DC in 2022, but a ‘robust return to growth’ for this market in 2023 is expected.
Sol Systems and Google have entered a new partnership to bring online 225 MW DC new solar and 18 MW battery storage capacity in the US.
Silfab Solar says its 3rd US manufacturing factory will have host 1 GW annual cell production and an additional 1.2 GW module assembly capacity.
US researchers claim their CFD model indicates agrivoltaic systems can potentially help resolve the global food energy crisis by improving PV efficiency.
AE Solar has proposed to launch a solar panel production facility in Romania with 2 GW initial capacity, eventually scaling it up to 10 GW annually.
Carbon has selected Fos-sur-Mer in France to host its 1st solar gigafactory with n-type technology to produce 5 GW cells & 3.5 GW modules annually.
Germany installed 780 MW new solar PV capacity in the month of January 2023 which takes the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity to over 68.17 GW.
British oil & gas major bp will develop HyVal with a 2 GW electrolyzer capacity in Spain’s Valencia region by 2030 to produce green hydrogen.
