Long Reads

Booming solar deployment in has led to fears that a bottleneck in the availability of contractors could squeeze project completion rates.

At present, there are limited studies on the processes of decommissioning solar projects and cost estimates vary wildly.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at some of the latest developments underpinning trackers’ growing status as an indispensable ingredient in solar’s continued growth.

Appetite to invest in US community solar projects has seen increased interest since last year, boosted by the Inflation Reduction Act.

With the United States on the cusp of an IRA-driven surge in utility-scale PV deployment, Mark Bolinger and Joachim Seel of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cover key technology and market trends in this synopsis of their annual “Utility-Scale Solar” report series.

Headlines in the media in recent weeks and months regarding the plight of the European PV industry have not made for pleasant reading. However, the situation is far from bleak for companies and research institutes across Europe today.

PV Tech Premium spoke with Origami Solar on how solar steel frames could help ease up the supply chain issues of module frames in the US and Europe.

The European Commission has acknowledged the current state of Europe's solar manufacturers, yet has come short of implementing any measures.

James Elsworth of the NREL in the US looks at some of the engineering methods for bolstering PV infrastructure resilience in the face of ever increasing climatic and environmental threats.