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One high-quality dataset is enough: Rethinking common data practices in PV projects

Features, Guest Blog
August 27, 2025
By Marcel Suri, CEO, Solargis
Solargis' Marcel Suri reports on the mixing of datasets in solar project planning to artificially enhance financial attractiveness.
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‘US solar manufacturing is at a crossroads’

Features, Interviews
August 27, 2025
By Will Norman
American Clean Power Association’s MJ Shiao assesses the state of US PV manufacturing in the wake of recent policy developments.
The plant will achieve over 25% cell efficiency, using a 16-busbar design that enhances power output. Image: Premier Energies.
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Tariffs and AD/CVD ‘not welcome news’ say experts, as India treads the murky US markets 

Features, Interviews
August 22, 2025
By Shreeyashi Ojha
Indian PV manufacturers are facing a double hit from US trade tariffs and anti-dumping measures on products sold in America. Shreeyashi Ojha reports on how these are impacting their business models.
A solar project in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Dominance of PV and the shift to bifacial back contact c-Si technology in the next solar decade

Features, Guest Blog, Long Reads
August 22, 2025
By Dr. Radovan Kopecek and Dr. Joris Libal
Radovan Kopecek and Joris Libal examine the technological and economic factors driving PV’s ascendancy, with emphasis on bifacial BC modules.
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CTO interview with JA Solar

Features, Interviews
August 21, 2025
By Ben Willis
JA Solar's CTO, Zi Ouyang, discusses the company's latest module technologies and why the future is tandem.
A BayWa r.e. solar project.
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After the blackout

Features, Editors' Blog, Interviews
August 18, 2025
By Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores evidence of systemic problems in the Iberian grid and some of the solutions following the blackout.
Yongqian Wang headshot.
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The copper standard: could new cell manufacturing processes replace silver?

Features, Interviews
August 15, 2025
By JP Casey
PV Talk: AIKO's chief scientist, Yongqian Wang, tells PV Tech Premium that copper is now a “highly suitable” alternative to silver.
Emeren's Sadów solar project in Poland.
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Minimising risk and accelerating negotiations with ‘vanilla’ PPAs

Features, Interviews, Long Reads
August 14, 2025
By JP Casey
JP Casey investigates efforts currently being made to standardise the offtake agreement for the renewable power sector.
The US Senate building.

US PV manufacturing capacity increases by more than 800% since IRA launched in 2022

Features, Editors' Blog
August 14, 2025
By Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Despite policy setbacks, US manufacturing has come a long way since 2022 and shows strong potential looking ahead. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at the data.
An esVolta storage project.
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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Act brings changes, some clarity to US energy storage development

Features, Editors' Blog
August 8, 2025
By April Bonner
Energy storage escaped much of the pain inflicted on solar, but foreign entity restrictions may create some supply-chain challenges.

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