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Suntech's chairman Wu Fei on why his company has the right attributes to weather the latest PV industry reshuffle.

The foundations of a solar project offer multiple opportunities for driving down system costs. Arash Yazdani of PRI Engineering describes some of the key steps involved in investigating the specific conditions of a project site and developing a foundation design that will stand the test of time.

Even though the solar PV market in Ecuador is currently non-existent, with only a few projects operational and mostly in the distributed generation market, it is about to take off, says José Luis García Pérez, Latin America’s CEO at Spanish developer Zelestra, formerly known as Solarpack.

Simon Yuen takes a close look at Soltec’s floating solar tracker, which the company says is based on naval design principles.

The company talks to PV Tech about challenges and opportunities in the solar PV market in Europe, as well as its manufacturing capacity.

As a fast-growing segment of the industry, floating solar is also a novel technology that comes with a variety of new operational risks.

The US needs to include wafer production in the domestic content incentives, writes NexWafe CEO Davor Sutija.

India is still facing several challenges to increase its installed solar capacity, including financing and grid infrastructure. 

PV Tech spoke with Henning Schulz, vice president of JA Solar at the Intersolar Europe trade show in Munich