Simon Yuen

US utility FirstEnergy Ohio has launched a request for proposals to purchase 570,000 renewable energy credits for its subsidiary Ohio Edison.

Over 1,183GW of solar PV plants have been installed as of the end of 2022, of which 65% were added in the last five years.

US community solar service provider Perch Energy has secured US$30 million from investment company Nuveen.

Many companies and research teams demonstrated impressive results in major releases this year, effectively consolidating the competitiveness of HJT technology and promoting the development of solar energy.

The year-on-year growth of production in a number of sectors, including polysilicon, wafers and modules, all approached or exceeded 80%.

Turkey will need to install 5GW of solar and wind capacity every year until 2035, according to Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar.

Bulgaria has started a public consultation on the country's first renewable auction, with an available capacity of 570MW for wind and solar.

Alight recently expanded to Finland as the company's management believes both Sweden and Finland offers massive yet untapped potential when it comes to developing solar projects.

The levelised cost of energy for solar PV will drop to US$21/MWh by 2050, according to DNV's Energy Transition Outlook 2030.

Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies' shipments in the third quarter could drop by about 23% quarter-on-quarter to only 622MW due to a reduced shipments to a US customer and a drop in demand in the global distributed generation (DG) market.