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Solar PV is set to account for 80% of the 5,500GW of new clean energy additions made by 2030, according to the IEA.

Swiss-owned PV manufacturer Meyer Burger has appointed Franz Richter as its new CEO, less than a week after Gunter Erfurt stepped down .

The total solar workforce in the US reached nearly 280,000 workers at the end of 2023, according to IREC's Solar Jobs Census report.

The company announced a 'strategic realignment' of its operations to 'ensure [a] return to profitability'.

The US added 142,000 jobs to its clean energy sector in 2023, accounting for more than half of all new jobs added to the US energy industry.

Zvi Lando had been in the post for five years and served as SolarEdge’s VP of global sales for ten years prior to that.

Horizon Power, Western Australia’s region energy provider, has inked its first Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) with the Nyul Nyul people of Beagle Bay in Kimberley for a proposed solar PV development.

EIT InnoEnergy has launched the European Solar Academy to help train 65,000 people to work in the European PV sector.

Prominent fire safety experts, solar professionals and veteran firefighters have serious concerns about new PV hazard control solutions.

A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that new solar and wind capacity drove US$249 billion of economic benefits.