China adds 14.36GW solar PV in June, down 85% month-on-month - PV Tech
China has installed 14.36GW of solar PV in June 2025, down 85% from the previous month and also decreasing 38% from the same period in 2024.| PV Tech
China has installed 14.36GW of solar PV in June 2025, down 85% from the previous month and also decreasing 38% from the same period in 2024.| PV Tech
Solar Stewardship Initiative adopts new transparency targets for modules exported to European countries| PV Tech
Europe must secure the 'strategic segments' of the solar supply chain, according to experts at a PV Tech panel at this year's Intersolar event| PV Tech
The modules themselves comprise 72 of Oxford PV’s perovskite-on-silicon cells with a conversion efficiency of 24.5%.| 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
The first tender for the South West Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) Access Rights in New South Wales, Australia, has seen interest from projects amounting to around 15GW of solar PV, wind and energy storage.| PV Tech
The Energy Corporation of New South Wales has confirmed that construction on Australia’s first Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) has started.| PV Tech
Spain has released the results of its investigation into the April blackout, which ruled out renewables as the cause of the disruption.| PV Tech
A series of grid failures led to April's unprecedented power outage in Spain and Portugal, ruling out renewables as the leading cause.| PV Tech
Australia’s NEM set a new instantaneous renewables share record of 78.6% on 22 September, surpassing the previous day's record of 77.9%.| PV Tech
Magdalena Hilgner of PLAY explains that projects that deliver power reliably and at a fair price will always be attractive for offtakers.| PV Tech
With solar a global industry, perhaps a global approach is the best way to ensure a more consistent supply of funding.| PV Tech
The levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) for a number of clean power industries will fall by between 2-11% year-on-year by the end of 2025.| PV Tech
Ciel & Terre Taiwan and HEXA Renewables have completed the 192.3MWp final phases of a 440MWp floating solar project in Taiwan.| 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
CREC will receive delivery of Trinasolar’s Vertex N 720W Series of n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) modules.| PV Tech
Economic trends and the US election have changed the conditions for investment in the European solar sector, say SFIEU panellists.| PV Tech
Australia's coal-fired power stations are expected to close in the 2030s, Cornwall Insight predicts that the last will not until the 2050s.| PV Tech
Solar PV growth is expected to slow down in Brazil and Chile due to ongoing issues of curtailment and transmission infrastructure.| PV Tech
The sale of the three phases represents 23% of the capacity of the Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project.| PV Tech
Spanish independent power producer (IPP) has unveiled two new solar-plus-storage projects, one in Central Chile and the other in Spain.| PV Tech
Chile has curtailed a record 5,909GWh of solar PV and wind power in 2024, up 121% from the previous year, according to trade body ACERA.| PV Tech
Solar PV in Chile is facing a twofold issue: the curtailment of generation and the reduction of income due to low prices of electricity.| PV Tech
Spanish construction firm GES has secured a contract to build a roughly 700MW solar-wind-storage hybrid project in Chile.| PV Tech
Spanish IPP Grenergy has sold the fourth phase of its flagship solar-plus-storage project in Chile, Oasis de Atacama.| 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
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
Independent power producer (IPP) Verano Energy has closed a US$204 financing for a 83MW/660MWh solar-plus-storage project in Chile.| 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
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
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
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
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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
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
Investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has begun commercial operations at a 373MW solar PV plant in the UK.| PV Tech
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
Growing hybridisation and co-location of renewable power projects and storage facilities could strengthen revenue in Europe’s power sector.| 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
The DOC's CVD ruling is a short-term win for certain manufacturers and a possible setback for many others in the US value chain.| PV Tech
We heard a range of voices, with a range of opinions, talking about the Inflation Reduction Act on day 1 of RE+ in Anaheim, California.| PV Tech
Meridian Energy and Nova Energy have agreed to form a joint venture to build and operate one of New Zealand’s largest solar PV plants.| PV Tech
Photon Energy Group said in its Q4 2024 financial results that it lost €1.5 million on the sale of several solar plants in New South Wales.| PV Tech
President Trump has signed orders to revoke parts of the IRA, examine trade relations with China and withdraw from the Paris agreement.| PV Tech
The letter said the IRA has brought “significant investments in the health of our economy" and US$500 billion in manufacturing investments.| PV Tech
Specific policy details are still unclear, but Donald Trump's return to the White House will have undoubted consequences for US solar.| PV Tech
The Energy Storage for Resilient Homes Act would allow residents to use the Federal Emergency Management Agency to fund residential BESS.| PV Tech
AEMO has revealed its 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP), laying out a 30-year roadmap that plots NEM's transition to net zero via investments| PV Tech
AGL Energy and Elecsome have signed a MoU to create a solar module recycling plant in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales (NSW).| PV Tech
AEMC is proposing to enable VPPs to compete with large-scale generators in the energy market, aiding solar PV’s role in Australia.| PV Tech
AEMO has revealed that by 2050, AU16 billion must be invested to enable the growth of grid-scale wind and solar in Australia.| PV Tech
The AEMC is to integrate new rules surrounding CER to exercise greater control over their use, aiding solar PV’s role in the electricity mix.| PV Tech
Australian think tank Race for 2030 has called for additional investment and incentives to support consumer energy, such as solar.| PV Tech
Fortescue's 100MW North Star Junction solar farm in Western Australia is partially operational, and the firm is committed to green hydrogen.| PV Tech
