Policy

For the second year in a row, solar PV outpaced wind in global electricity growth generation in 2023, according to energy think tank Ember.

Clean energy manufacturing – led by solar PV expansions – accounted for 4% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The Italian government has banned solar PV installations on agricultural land in a move that the nation’s solar trade association said would cost Italy €60 billion (US$64.5 billion).

India has more than trebled utility-scale renewables tender capacity to 69.8GW in fiscal year 2024, 48% of which was from solar PV.

The Virginia General Assembly has passed a bill to allow rooftop solar leasing with a third-party in the state,

Kiwa PVEL's Tristan Erion-Lorico talks about his view on AD/CVD regulations and Kiwa PVEL's Module Reliability Scorecard.

The first two solar PV projects from the sixth round of South Africa’s state renewable energy tender – representing 360MW capacity - have been approved and reached commercial close.

An increase in solar module prices is “hard to imagine unless there is a massive shortage in supply”, according to PV Tech head of research Finlay Colville.

The German government has launched a new rooftop solar tender, seeking 258MW of PV capacity open until Monday 3 June 2024.

US renewables firm Clean Energy Associates (CEA) predicts that the solar industry’s latest anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petition has a “high likelihood” of resulting in duties being paid on solar imports.