Europe

Major Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has sign an agreement with Spanish power company Naturgy to offer 574MWp of modules.

EU's solar power generation is expected to increase by 50TWh this year thanks to increased capacity installations, according to Rystad Energy.

French land management firm Veolia has launched a project to build 300MW of solar capacity on its landfill sites in France.

The authors delve into the complexities and challenges of grid integration and compliance in the UK and Ireland markets.

Perovskite solar cell researcher Oxford PV and German research organisation Fraunhofer ISE have developed a full-sized tandem PV module with a record efficiency of 25%.

Midsummer has appointed former executive vice president Eric Jaremalm to the position of CEO, following the resignation of Sven Lindström.

Canadian renewables firm Westbridge Renewable Energy has expanded its presence in the European market with two solar PV projects in Italy.

LevelTen Energy has reported an increase in the value of solar PPAs signed in North America, and a slight decrease for those signed in Europe.

Making new investments into grid infrastructure could be a method of reducing the impact of price cannibalisation on the European energy grid.

The combination of strict land legislation, elaborate permitting and a fiercely competitive solar developer market trying to meet ambitious PV deployment targets is causing issues for the French solar market.