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Jonathan Touriño Jacobo caught up with Vladimir Tabutov, founder and CEO of Bulgarian solar power project developer HEC Solar, following Solar Media’s Large Scale Solar Europe event in Lisbon, Portugal. They spoke about recent and upcoming changes in the Bulgarian regulations regime for adopting renewable energy technology.

Gyanesh Chaudhary, Vikram Solar’s chairman, tells PV Tech Premium about the company’s first vertical integration and manufacturing facility abroad and how it was driven by the IRA and recent cell capacity wins in India.

Upstream US-based solar manufacturer CubicPV might feasibly be the place at which tandem perovskite PV products are successfully made durable enough for commercial use; two recent announcements have come out of the company that speak to the potential of its tandem development route.

As PV projects become more and more common in the Nordics, wind players like OX2 are entering the solar market with large-scale projects.

Tom Kenning on one of the most promising up-and-coming solar power players of Southern Europe, Greece. He asked experts about the challenges and opportunities for PV in the country.

In order to meet the world’s clean energy goals, organisations not considered solar power companies will play a role in this transition.

Polysilicon material prices have experienced a further decline recently, with the price of mono popcorn reaching a new low of RMB60/kg (US$8.3/kg).

Recently, US-based solar tracker company Nevados signed two deals with solar PV developer Ampliform and independent power producer (IPP) Energix Renewables to supply trackers. As it started reaching out to the solar PV industry in the US, we invited Yezin Taha, founder and CEO of Nevados, to talk about the company's business, products, technology and plans.

Tom Kenning reports on Poland, a fast-rising star in the European photovoltaic market, where recent growth has been fuelled by the prosumer segment.

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.