Americas

Parliament Solar has selected Ideematec to supply a tracking system for its upcoming solar farm in the US state of Texas.

First Solar has announced that it will produce a limited production run of bifacial thin film PV modules, which it says are the first of their kind. The company ultimately plans to roll the product out commercially, following field and laboratory testing.

PV manufacturer Meyer Burger and German developer Baywa r.e have signed  a 1.25GW module supply deal in the US which will see Baywa r.e receive Meyer Burger panels from 2025 through 2029.

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.

US solar manufacturer CubicPV has received US$103 million in equity financing to support its plans to develop a US silicon wafer production base.

Duke Energy has agreed to sell its clean power arm to Brookfield Renewable in a deal valued at US$2.8 billion.

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.

A new report into the US renewables sector has found that solar projects able to cut the cost of producing electricity by up to 60%.

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

A newly-created, equipment-supplier-led PV consortium could be vital for the future of domestic US solar manufacturing.