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NEM data spotlight: Solar generation increases 13% year-on-year in April

Features, Long Reads
May 1, 2025
By George Heynes
April 2025 saw solar PV generation, both rooftop and utility-scale, decrease marginally month-on-month in Australia’s NEM by almost 11%.
An off-grid solar project in Myanmar.
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Engaging investors amid cyclical investment trends in off-grid solar

Features, Interviews, Long Reads
April 29, 2025
By JP Casey
“There is an adjustment in the industry [where] there are cycles,” explains Laura Fortes, senior manager for access to finance at GOGLA.
A YC Solar facility.
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Rising module prices and a rush to complete projects – welcome to China’s PV ‘Hunger Games’

Features, Editors' Blog, Long Reads
April 28, 2025
By Carrie Xiao
Carrie Xiao assesses the impact of Chinese policy changes as developers rush to complete projects before rules change and module prices go up.
Europe’s largest PV power plant seen from the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite.
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Is PV woke and other reflections on the PV industry

Features, Guest Blog, Long Reads
April 22, 2025
By Gaëtan Masson, CEO, Becquerel Institute
Solar’s rapid expansion has attracted the attention of those opposed to its ongoing success, writes Becquerel Institute CEO Gaëtan Masson.
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Can European solar power weather the geopolitical storm?

Features, Editors' Blog, Long Reads
April 17, 2025
By Will Norman
As Europe readjusts to a new geopolitical uncertainty, PV Tech asks what impact the continent's solar industry might feel.
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Easing Europe’s grid constraints: a developer’s perspective

Features, Interviews, Long Reads
April 16, 2025
By Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
PV Talk: “We need more grid, but there are a lot of challenges and hurdles in expanding the grid,” José Visquert tells PV Tech Premium.
Anthony Albanese
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Australia’s federal election: a defining moment in the energy transition

Features, Editors' Blog, Long Reads
April 16, 2025
By George Heynes
In this blog, PV Tech explores how the upcoming Australian federal election could impact the rollout of renewables and solar PV.
Brett Hallam of the University of New South Wales.
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Australia’s solar PV industry hinges on China’s influence

Features, Interviews, Long Reads
April 2, 2025
By George Heynes
PV Talk: “Our best chance of establishing a viable solar industry is in partnership with China,” Brett Hallam tells PV Tech Premium.
An agriPV project.
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Agrivoltaics: towards the optimisation of the solar resource for energy and food

Features, Guest Blog, Long Reads
March 31, 2025
By Hugo Sánchez Ortiz
Hugo Sánchez Ortiz reports on some of the findings of research into how best to balance land use for energy and food production.
The Broken Hill solar plant.
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Tackling uncertainty in energy yield forecasts

Features, Guest Blog, Long Reads
March 24, 2025
By Keith McIntosh, CEO and co-founder, PV Lighthouse
Keith McIntosh of PV Lighthouse describes why energy yield forecasts are underestimated, and how the PV industry is improving forecasts.

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