Power Plants

PV Tech Premium talks to Solarcycle’s co-founders about their company’s unique ability to extract every single constituent material out of an end-of-life PV module, how solar panels are not lasting as long as people expected, the race to prevent solar waste being illegally dumped across the globe, and how modules can have a useful second life.

Chinese ambassador to South Africa Chen Xiaodong has offered to provide the South African grid with 66GW of solar infrastructure.

2022 saw the solar PV market enter a ‘new growth dimension’, where 239GW of solar capacity was added across the world representing two thirds of all new renewables capacity.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores how Eastern and Southern European countries have emerged in the race as key players for the European Union to reach 740GW of solar capacity installed by 2030.

The University of Arkansas has announced a 25-year “solar service agreement” with Entegrity to supply a research facility with solar power.

Solar Philippines Neva Ecija Corporation (SPNEC) has planned to start construction later this year on its 3.5GW solar farm in the Philippines.

Arctech has signed an agreement to provide solar trackers for 242MW of an upcoming solar facility in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Independent power producer (IPP) AMPYR Solar Europe has secured a €200 million (US$215 million) framework project finance facility with Dutch bank Rabobank.

PV Tech Premium talks to Slovenian solar company Bisol and the International Polar Foundation about features of renewable energy production at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station. 

Component manufacturer BENY's Ivan Qi speaks with PV Tech's David Evans during SNEC 2023, in Shanghai, China.