Long Reads

George Heynes explores how the UK’s Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regulations support the transition to a green energy economy.

Uncertainty surrounding ownership models of large-scale solar projects raises a question: are such facilities simply too big to succeed?

Tom Kenning looks at the rise of solar power in Texas, a US state better known for its role in the oil and gas industry, where a beneficial tax regime and an abundance of project land work in favour of building out solar power generation.

Upstream US-based solar manufacturer CubicPV might feasibly be the place at which tandem perovskite PV products are successfully made durable enough for commercial use; two recent announcements have come out of the company that speak to the potential of its tandem development route.

Tom Kenning on one of the most promising up-and-coming solar power players of Southern Europe, Greece. He asked experts about the challenges and opportunities for PV in the country.

In order to meet the world’s clean energy goals, organisations not considered solar power companies will play a role in this transition.

Part-2 of this article will discuss how recycling solar PV will reach landfill parity, the company’s global ambition and how PV recycling will have to work towards avoiding dumping panels illegally in less developed countries.

Jason Kaminsky, CEO, kWh Analytics, on how renewable asset owners and their insurers are adapting the way they assess risk from natural catastrophes and extreme weather events.

PV Tech Premium talks to Solarcycle’s co-founders about their company’s unique ability to extract every single constituent material out of an end-of-life PV module, how solar panels are not lasting as long as people expected, the race to prevent solar waste being illegally dumped across the globe, and how modules can have a useful second life.