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2024 has been marked with a downturn in the solar industry, with companies shutting down, laying off employees or restructuring its business. Here, PV Tech runs down its top 10 stories of the past 12 months.

Enlight Renewable Energy has announced financing for the 290MWdc/940MWh solar-plus-storage Roadrunner project near Tucson, Arizona.

Freyr has completed the acquisition of Trina Solar’s Texas solar manufacturing assets, first announced in November.

New York state has issued its final siting permit for AES’ 125MW Somerset solar project, to be built on former industrial land.

The US general election and its aftermath, along with struggles from Western inverter manufacturers have dominated Q4 news in 2024.

The demise of SunPower and the ongoing struggles of Maxeon dominated the news in Q3 2024, along with forecasts of a lengthy industry downturn.

PV Tech looks back at Q2 2024, where a number of critical pieces of US legislation had an impact on the country’s solar sector.

In the final days of 2024, PV Tech is looking back at the stories that dominated the headlines in each quarter of the year.

Located in the northern department of Atlantic, Enel started construction of two solar PV projects, the Guayepo III and Atlántico, with 200MW and 199.5MW of capacity, respectively.

The sale of the three phases represents 23% of the capacity of the Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project.