Indian PV manufacturer Emmvee has partnered with Fraunhofer ISO – a leading solar research centre – to build a 1.5GW solar cell manufacturing facility near Bangalore, southern India.
Spanish renewable energy provider Iberdrola has secured a €150 million (US$160 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to develop 400MW of PV and wind projects in Italy.
Florida-headquartered commercial and industrial (C&I) solar developer Solops has been acquired by Denham Capital in a US$200 million purchase agreement, a move which sees Solops become an independent power producer (IPP) under the new ownership.
A round-up of the latest PV project news from the US and Europe, including two announcements in Spain, the inauguration of a pair of Hungarian PV plants and operations beginning at an installation in Colorado from Lightsource bp.
A US-based solar tracker solutions provider, Nevados, has signed a long-term supply deal with solar PV developer Ampliform to fulfil its tracker requirements for the duration of its project pipeline.
The inventors of PERC solar PV technology were awarded the 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering this week, in recognition of the transformative role that the technology has played in raising the efficiency and lowering the cost of solar PV and making it a cornerstone of the renewable energy transition across the globe.
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have reportedly achieved a 30.3% efficiency rate for a test-size perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell.
Arctech, a global PV tracker manufacturer, will supply its Skyline tracking solutions to a 78.8MW solar project in Lithuania, to be developed by Danish solar developer European Energy.
