Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

German-based solar wafer producer NexWafe has expanded to the US and is exploring an initial development capacity of 6GW of solar wafers.

Aside from the immediate, visible damage, extreme weather events have a longer lasting impact on PV systems. NREL’s Dirk C. Jordan, Kirsten Perry, Robert White, Josh Parker, Byron McDanold and Chris Deline report on research revealing the long-term consequences of hail, wind and other weather phenomena on PV production.

3Sun, the solar module manufacturing subsidiary of Italian utility Enel has secured €560 million (US$612 million) in financing for its heterojunction module assembly plant in Sicily, Italy.

US tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar has opened a 2.5GW solar tracker facility in the eastern region of Bahia, Brazil.

UK-based energy group Octopus Energy has acquired its first solar PV portfolio of 142.8MW projects in Germany.

Between US$7 and US$9 billion in transferable tax credit transactions were made last year in the US, according to a report from Crux, an ecosystem for entities to transact and manage transferable tax credits.

PV Tech spoke with Jinko’s Victor Wei and Wally Zang, Senior IR Director and Technical Service Centre  General Manager respectively, about the company’s investment in TOPCon, its fully vertically integrated plant currently being built in China’s Shanxi province and how it is looking at module products for deployment in offshore solar projects subject to hail conditions.

Partnering with Indigenous communities will be important for Ontario’s clean energy target, according to a report from Ontario’s Electrification and Energy Transition Panel.

Distributed energy platform Scale Microgrids has acquired over 500MW of community solar and energy storage projects across several states in the US from Netherlands-based developer Gutami.

Panama’s national secretary of energy has launched its first bidding auction exclusively for renewables and energy storage.