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US community solar owner-operator Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) and Japanese energy firm Osaka Gas USA (OGUSA) have expanded their partnership to construct, own and operate more than 100MW of solar PV in Virginia, the US.

The International Renewable Energy Agency has called for the world to add 551GW of solar capacity per year by 2030.

Italian utility Enel Group’s subsidiary Enel X has secured a tender to build a 22MW PV system at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, claiming to be the largest self-consumption PV system at an airport in Europe.

PV Tech sat down with KSTAR product director Jorson Li at Intersolar Europe 2023 in Munich, earlier this month, to discuss the company’s solution portfolio, its view of the market and its own objectives for 2023.

The National Energy Administration of China has unveiled that the country's newly added PV capacity in the first five months of 2023 was 61.2GW.

US utility Duke Energy will purchase 199MW of solar power under a 20-year agreement with renewables developer Ranger Power in Indiana.

Utility Enel has signed a 15-year solar virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with bearing manufacturer SKF in Spain.

Chinese electronics developer Hoymiles has unveiled its latest microinverter series, the HMS-1000W, designed for domestic environments.

Grounding issues and damaged modules are the most common safety problems among rooftop solar projects, according to Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

Part-2 of this article will discuss how recycling solar PV will reach landfill parity, the company’s global ambition and how PV recycling will have to work towards avoiding dumping panels illegally in less developed countries.