Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Colombian oil company Ecopetrol has selected independent power producer Total Eren for the construction and operation of a 100MWp solar plant in Colombia.

Chinese module manufacturer Risen Energy has revealed its plan to expand the production capacity of its Hyper-ion solar cell and module to 15GW in 2023.

Higher interest rates in the second half of the year slowed down corporate funding in the global solar sector to US$24.1 billion in 2022, according to research from Mercom Capital Group.

Renewables developer Green Genius is planning to build a 100MW solar PV project in Latvia, its first in the Baltic country.

Solar developer Solarig and asset manager Alantra have partnered to launch a 1.9GW solar PV investment vehicle focused on Southern Europe.

Austria's government has released a series of measures to accelerate the deployment of solar which will simplify environmental permits and increase funding for solar PV.

Polysilicon prices have continued their downward slump, with a weekly decrease of 20%, now nearing the US$20/kg mark.

A group of key stakeholders in the PV industry has called for measures for a competitive domestic European PV upstream value chain.

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member JA Solar is planning to build its first module manufacturing facility in the US.

Latin America-focused renewables developer EnfraGen has entered into EPC contracts with Chilean developer Verano Energy to build eight solar PV plants in Chile.