Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

United Solar is currently building a 100,000 ton polysilicon factory in Oman which it expects to be operational in 2025.

According to IRENA, the renewable energy employed 16.2 million people in 2023, of which 7.1 million jobs were in the solar PV industry.

The European Commission (EC) has approved a €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) Portuguese state aid scheme to support investments in the production of renewable energy equipment.

In related Romanian news, Simtel has partnered with Monsson to develop, construct and sell 150MW of solar PV and/or hybrid projects.

Tata Power to build a 2GW module plant in India, while Vikram Solar filed draft papers for its IPO and build a 3GW cell and module plant.

This is the third R&D facility that Nextracker has in operations, with one in Northern California, US and another one in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

California governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed a bill that would have allowed schools and apartment buildings to use self-consumption of solar PV.

Solar manufacturer SEG Solar has started construction on a 5GW TOPCon vertically integrated – from ingots to modules – solar PV plant in Indonesia.

By 2040, up to 25GW of solar PV, battery storage and wind deployment could be reduced in the major power markets.

Security solutions DeterTech has unveiled its rapid response solution for solar PV farms and battery storage to address the threat of cable theft.