Editors’ Blog

Editors' Blog, Features
September 30, 2015
By Finlay Colville
Capital expenditure in the PV industry used to be a simple metric to track. A new manufacturing facility meant new capex, it was that easy.
Editors' Blog, Features
September 30, 2015
By Ben Willis
Solar has an opportunity to be a focal point of December's crucial climate talks in Paris, but the industry must become better at making itself heard, writes Ben Willis.
Editors' Blog, Features
September 29, 2015
By Tom Kenning
PV Tech visited Europe’s largest solar park, a 300MW project developed by France-based PV developer Neoen, located in Cestas, France in order to take a closer look at the intricacies of such a massive project:
Editors' Blog, Features
September 29, 2015
By Mark Osborne
SunPower is planning gigawatts of PV projects over the coming years, but has yet to make public its plans for a new wave of manufacturing capacity expansions. Mark Osborne explores what options may be open to the US company in the race to remain competitive.
Editors' Blog, Features
September 28, 2015
By Finlay Colville
A breakaway 'super league' of silicon module suppliers looks on course to take a 40% market share in 2015, writes Finlay Colville.
Editors' Blog, Features
August 25, 2015
By John Parnell
PV Tech invites you to help deliver a potentially life-saving solar array to a hospital in Uganda. Find out how you can help with the project.
Editors' Blog, Features
August 19, 2015
By Mark Osborne
Despite Reuters and whole bunch of mainstream media as well as some specialists in the renewable’s field having initially pronounced a major US$4 billion JV between SunEdison and India’s large conglomerate, Adani Group was a done deal back at the beginning of the year, those that did so should re-acquaint themselves with the terms 'memorandum of understanding' (MOU) and 'feasibility study'.
Editors' Blog, Features
August 8, 2015
By Mark Osborne
PV Tech’s preliminary analysis of global PV manufacturing expansion plans for the month of July, 2015 provide a longer-term picture to future expansions rather than more immediate decisions, underlying a lull in ‘meaningful’ capacity additions.
Editors' Blog, Features
July 1, 2015
By Mark Osborne
Recent reports of tigthening supply and falling polysilicon prices indicate that PV module manufacturers could be entering a period of improved profitability not seen for the last three years, writes Mark Osborne.
Editors' Blog, Features
June 29, 2015
By Tom Kenning
Solar energy now accounts for 1% of all global electricity demand but the next 1% will come much sooner. Tom Kenning investigates just how much quicker.

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