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The successful projects of the first CIS tender round in Australia have been revealed, with 2.75GW of solar PV being awarded.| PV Tech
The successful projects of the first CIS tender round in Australia have been revealed, with 2.75GW of solar PV being awarded.| PV Tech
In August 2025, the final month of Australia’s winter, utility-scale and rooftop solar PV generation in the National Electricity Market (NEM) saw a dramatic 22.5% month-on-month increase to 3,338GWh.| PV Tech
Sembcorp Solar Singapore has won a tender to develop an 86MWp floating solar PV project on Pandan Reservoir.| PV Tech
The UK’s new Labour government took power last summer, promising a renewable energy revolution, with solar playing a lead role.| PV Tech
California's solar and storage association has called for US$10 million fines for PG&E and SCE for failing to approve residential solar and storage projects applications quickly.| PV Tech
General Corporation for Electricity Transmission and Distribution has signed a deal with Syrian-Turkish Energy Company (STE) to build a 100MW solar plant in Kafr Behm, Hama Governorate.| PV Tech
Solar Organic Centro España is planning to build a 10GW solar module and battery manufacturing facility in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha.| PV Tech
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to continue the investigation on imported solar cells from India, Indonesia and Laos.| PV Tech
Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) hit a record high for the combined utility-scale solar PV and wind share in the electricity mix on 30 August.| PV Tech
Meridian Energy and Nova Energy have completed agreements to establish a 50-50 joint venture (JV) to build and operate the 400MW Te Rahui solar PV power plant near Taupō, New Zealand.| PV Tech
Renewables developer and independent power producer (IPP) TagEnergy has acquired Australian developer ACE Power, adding 6GW of renewable energy and storage projects to its portfolio.| PV Tech
Two CIS tenders have opened in Western Australia, seeking 1.6GW of renewable energy generation in the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM).| PV Tech
The European Commission has said that agrivoltaics has the potential to exceed the entirety of Europe’s solar PV goals by 2030 through deployments on 1% of utilised agricultural area.| PV Tech
Chinese module maker JA Solar has launched DesertBlue, a PV module designed for desert and semi-arid regions.| PV Tech
Independent power producer (IPP) Verano Energy has closed a US$204 financing for a 83MW/660MWh solar-plus-storage project in Chile.| PV Tech
The first half of 2025 has been the strongest year for UK solar energy generation on record, according to a new report think tank Ember.| PV Tech
US-based climate insurance provider kWh Analytics has launched a new renewable energy insurance cover for extreme weather events.| PV Tech
US grid interconnection agreements grew by 33% in 2024, reaching 75GW, with three-quarters signed for solar PV and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, according to a new report from energy market analyst Wood Mackenzie.| PV Tech
Meridian Energy and Nova Energy have established a JV to build and operate a 400MW solar plant in Rangitaiki near Taupo in New Zealand.| PV Tech
PV Tech Premium hears from Renewable Properties and Silicon Ranch about the new 'start of construction' rules for US solar projects.| PV Tech
State-owned firm Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has launched a tender for the construction of a 280MW floating PV (FPV) project.| PV Tech
Bahraini, Chinese, Egyptian and Emirati groups have agreed to develop a new solar and storage manufacturing facility in Egypt| PV Tech
Latin America has the potential to unlock billions in clean energy investment if it aligns national policies with global sustainability goals and investor expectations.| PV Tech
Indian solar manufacturing firm INA Solar has broken ground on its fourth 4.5GW cell production plant in Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh.| PV Tech
US solar companies could potentially pay “tens of billions” of dollars in retroactive duties on products imported from Southeast Asia between June 2022 and June 2024, following a decision from the US Court of International Trade (CIT).| PV Tech
Boviet Solar has completed exterior construction work on its 3GW PV cell manufacturing facility in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina.| PV Tech
JinkoSolar has sold 41.8GW of PV modules in the first half of the year, despite growing financial losses for its manufacturing subsidiary.| PV Tech
Another high-level inter-departmental symposium on the PV industry was held in Beijing last week, which focused on four key areas including low-prices.| PV Tech
American Clean Power Association’s MJ Shiao assesses the state of US PV manufacturing in the wake of recent policy developments.| PV Tech
ABO Energy has closed its first syndicated loan agreement worth €240 million (US$279.8 million) to develop and construct more wind, solar and storage project.| PV Tech
Daqo New Energy has posted gross losses of US$81.4 million in Q2 2025, up from losses of US$81.5 million in Q1.| PV Tech
Investment in utility-scale solar fell by 19% in the first half of 2025, as global investment in all renewable energy projects grew by 10%.| PV Tech
Jakson Engineers is investing over INR80 billion (US$912.5 million) to set up a 6GW integrated solar module, cell, and wafer plant.| PV Tech
India installed 14.3GW of new utility-scale solar capacity in the first half (H1) of 2025, marking a 49% increase year-on-year.| PV Tech
The Australian Government’s CER approved 56 new power stations, with 797MW of renewable energy capacity, in July this year.| PV Tech
US-based solar module manufacturer Bila Solar will include US-made steel module frames in its 550W dual-glass products.| PV Tech
Malaysian clean energy solutions company Gentari Renewables has partnered with Malaysian engineering and infrastructure giant Gamuda to build a solar-plus-storage portfolio in their home country.| PV Tech
Africa imported over 15GW of panels from China in the 12 months to June 2025, a 60% increase over the imports recorded in the prior year.| PV Tech
Indian PV manufacturers are facing a double hit from US trade tariffs and anti-dumping measures on products sold in America. Shreeyashi Ojha reports on how these are impacting their business models.| PV Tech
Saudi developer ACWA Power has started commercial operations of a 2.7GW solar PV portfolio in its home country.| PV Tech
USDA has announced that new wind and solar projects on agricultural land will not be eligible for two federal loan programmes.| PV Tech
A report from American Clean Power Association shows that Texas has nearly 22GW of installed solar PV capacity after adding 1.6GW in Q2 2024.| PV Tech
The US Department of Commerce has found that some PV cells and modules produced in four Southeast Asian countries are circumventing antidumping duty and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders on solar cells and modules from China.| PV Tech
Weeks after appointing a CEO, polysilicon manufacturer REC Silicon has named Jeong Ryul Yun as its new CFO.| PV Tech
Since August 2022 there have been 12 new solar manufacturing facilities announced in the US that represent 22GW of module and cell capacity.| PV Tech
US President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, representing the largest ever climate package in US history| PV Tech
The USITC has decided to continue its AD/CVD investigation into the imports of crystalline silicon PV cells from Southeast Asia.| PV Tech
Module manufacturer Meyer Burger has planned to build a solar cell plant in Colorado, the US, with an initial annual capacity of 2GW.| PV Tech
Venture capital firm Pacific Channel has launched Fund V, which targets 10GW of solar, wind, and energy storage in New Zealand.| PV Tech
Developer Pacific Energy has successfully commissioned a 26MW solar-plus-storage site at the Atlas-Campaspe mine in NSW, Australia.| PV Tech
Independent power producer RP Global is building a 50MWp solar project in Harbke, Germany.| PV Tech
The governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, has signed a new legislation that seeks to build 3GW of new community solar by 2029.| PV Tech
Solargis' Marcel Suri reports on the mixing of datasets in solar project planning to artificially enhance financial attractiveness.| PV Tech
Norwegian energy company Statkraft has sold its Netherlands solar portfolio of 120MWp to Dutch renewable energy supplier Greenchoice.| PV Tech
Noria has started construction on a 50kW floating PV pilot project, which includes the first trackers on a floating solar project in the US.| PV Tech
Long-term procurement decisions from the US solar industry could support US solar manufacturing, regardless of changes to federal tax credits, PV Tech has heard.| PV Tech
Tracker manufacturer FTC Solar has signed a 1GW solar PV tracker and software supply agreement with engineering firm Levona Renewables.| PV Tech
Spanish infrastructure provider Ferrovial Energy will build a 250MW solar photovoltaic facility in Milam County, Texas.| PV Tech
Polish independent power producer (IPP) R.Power plans to sell a 440MW ready-to-build PV portfolio in its home country.| PV Tech
Corporate financing in the solar sector rose 42% to US$34 billion in 2023 compared with 2022, according to Mercom Capital.| PV Tech
China added 11.04GW of solar PV capacity in July 2025, a 48% decrease YoY, according to data from China's National Energy Administration.| PV Tech
President Joe Biden has vetoed the proposal by the Senate to revoke his two-year waiver on Southeast Asian solar PV imports.| PV Tech
Auxin Solar has asked the US Department of Commerce to investigate whether Southeast Asia-based companies are circumventing US anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders on cells and modules from China.| PV Tech
A group of US-based solar manufacturers have filed an antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petition to the US Department of Commerce.| PV Tech
This is the first determination reached in the ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigation into imports of solar cells.| PV Tech
Total global corporate funding for the sector stood at US$22.3 billion, down from US$28.9 billion at the same point in 2023.| PV Tech
NTPC Green Energy has commissioned 212.5MW of solar capacity at its 1.25GW Khavda-I project in the western Indian state of Gujarat.| PV Tech
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Panellists discuss some of the challenges in European solar's financial landscape at an event organised at Intersolar Europe 2025 by PV Tech.| PV Tech
Several European countries have underestimated the deployment of solar PV by 205GW by 2030, according to Ember’s latest report.| PV Tech
“As the market develops, there’s more sophisticated views of the market,” said Aldevinas Burokas at Solar Finance & Investment Europe 2025.| PV Tech
Sustained private investment into UK solar is starting to produce results, at least with regard to the role of solar power in its energy mix.| PV Tech
PV Tech Premium spoke with Johan Lindahl, secretary general at the ESMC about Europe's solar manufacturing industry's dire situation.| PV Tech
The US Department of Commerce has issued a final rule designed to tighten up the antidumping and countervailing duty regulations.| PV Tech
Opinions on the anniversary of the IRA from different parts of the US solar industry, as well as a timeline of the IRA's history.| PV Tech
The European Parliament has approved a new regulation prohibiting the sale, import and export of goods made using forced labour.| PV Tech
An increase in solar module prices is “hard to imagine unless there is a massive shortage in supply”, according to Finlay Colville.| PV Tech
Indonesia has ratified the PLN Electricity Supply Business Plan 2025–2034, targeting 42.6GW of renewable energy generation.| PV Tech
Europe’s solar sector exceeded 800,000 full-time equivalent jobs for the first time in 2023, following record-breaking installation figures.| PV Tech
Many of the mechanisms used to manage the finances of the solar sector have not kept pace with the rate of capacity additions.| PV Tech
Meeting the UK’s solar targets will not simply require the installation of new capacity, but investment in grid infrastructure and training.| PV Tech
PV Talk: '2024 was a transformational year in terms of energy policy,' says Monika Paplaczyk ahead of this year's Clean Power 2030 Summits.| PV Tech
Investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has begun commercial operations at a 373MW solar PV plant in the UK. The post Quinbrook powers 373MW UK solar PV plant, country’s ‘largest’ appeared first on UK Solar Summit.| UK Solar Summit
The UK government has released its Solar Roadmap, which sets out practical measures to meet the country’s solar PV targets.| PV Tech
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) is to investigate alleged circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) by solar manufacturers in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.| PV Tech
The US solar industry was previously sanguine about Trump's initial tariffs, though the impacts of these metal tariffs are unclear.| PV Tech
Though Donald Trump's executive orders have created uncertainty for US solar, growth will continue, write Bob Moczulewski and Joel Laubenstein.| PV Tech
Growing hybridisation and co-location of renewable power projects and storage facilities could strengthen revenue in Europe’s power sector.| PV Tech
Co-located solar and battery projects are among the most cost-competitive power sources, according to speakers at the Energy Storage Summit.| PV Tech
This could be a sign of a “healthy, competitive marketplace" according to research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.| PV Tech
India installed around 13.2GW of new utility-scale solar capacity from January through September this year, a roughly 161% increase.| PV Tech
The European Commission has approved a €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) Greek state aid measure to support two solar-plus-storage projects.| PV Tech
Qcells plans to establish a fully integrated US solar manufacturing supply chain, aiming to manufacture ingots and wafers in the country.| PV Tech
New AD/CVD tariffs in the US could result in increased solar cell and module costs 'that significantly restricts solar supply in the US'.| PV Tech
US renewables firm Clean Energy Associates predicts that the solar industry’s latest AD/CVD petition has a “high likelihood” of success.| PV Tech
Hounen Solar and Solar Long PV-Tech have said they do not have the resources to continue participating in the investigation.| PV Tech
US President Joe Biden is to waive tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia for two years to boost renewables deployment.| PV Tech
The US added a record 49GW of new solar capacity in 2024, according to figures from the BCSE and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.| PV Tech
Quinbrook and Primergy Solar have reached commercial operations at their 690MWac/966MWdc Gemini solar-plus-storage project in Nevada.| PV Tech
India has added a record 24.5GW of solar PV capacity in 2024, according to data from energy consultancy JMK Research.| PV Tech
