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Innovating alongside strengthening: how to counter falling solar module mechanical strength

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews
April 23, 2024
By Tom Kenning
Colin Sillerud at CFV Labs suggests that changes in module design have led to a weakening of mechanical stability in modules.
A cracked PV module.
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Testing times

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews, Long Reads
April 22, 2024
By Will Norman
Following a decade of technological innovation and geopolitical challenges, PV Tech Power revisits the issue of module quality.
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Italy’s solar renaissance: the challenges, the opportunities and the grid

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews
April 18, 2024
By Will Norman
As Italy’s solar market looks to be finding its feet after a decade of stumbling around below the 1GW mark, 2024 could be the year it starts to cover real ground again.
A solar project under construction.
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‘We need to see US$5 trillion’: the role of green bonds in delivering sustainable solar investments

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews, Long Reads
April 17, 2024
By JP Casey
JP Casey reports on green bonds' growing importance as a vital source of support for solar and a tool for fighting greenwashing.
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PV Price Watch: polysilicon price falls again to US$6.49/kg, tightening manufacturers’ margins

Features, Editors' Blog
April 16, 2024
By Carrie Xiao
The transaction price of n-type silicon rod has fallen to 58-60 RMB/kg (US$8.01-8.29/kg) and the average price is down 3.30% month-on-month.
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PV Price Watch: new polysilicon capacity ‘not needed’ as its price drops to US$7.2/kg

Features, Editors' Blog
April 4, 2024
By Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Price of polysilicon decreased this week both for p-type and n-type materials with the former dropping below the historic low of US$6.75/kg reached in June 2020.
Pahal Solar groundbreaking ceremony.
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India’s Pahal Solar discusses 1.8GW PV module factory, automation strategy

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews
April 3, 2024
By Tom Kenning
Pahal Solar has broken ground on a new fully-automated facility, which will expand the company’s manufacturing capacity to 1.8GW.
Claude Dagescy (left) and Lalit Kumar Singh (right), discuss 5B and Waaree's manufacturing plant.
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‘We have a solution where others do not’: 5B eyes landfill solar projects and expanded manufacturing

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews
March 28, 2024
By Tom Kenning
Prefabricated solar structure provider 5B has made a number of investments into its prefabrication business in both the US and India.
Solar and wind projects in France.
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The business case for co-located solar projects in Europe

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews
March 27, 2024
By Will Norman
Despite an awareness of the benefits that co-located storage and solar can offer, the commercial model for such sites has yet to materialise.
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PV Price Watch: Diverging trends as wafer prices plummet, modules see incremental rise

Features, Editors' Blog
March 22, 2024
By Carrie Xiao
The pricing dynamics within the photovoltaic industry chain are witnessing a split, with noticeable drops in polysilicon and wafer prices.

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