Europe

Soltec has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, which include revenues of €121 million (US$130 million).

Fraunhofer ISE has launched a project to improve tracking algorithms, using a digital twin to calculate optimised control approaches.

The two-pronged attack of vastly growing solar capacity and the shift to n-type technologies has converged to make silver a real pressure point for future solar manufacturing.

Global solar installations increased by 87% year-on-year in 2023 as China continued to dominate growth, according to SolarPower Europe.

Germany installed more than 5GW of new solar capacity in the first four months of this year, according to trade association BSW Solar.

Croatia has launched a new renewables auction with 450MW of solar PV capacity tendered.

Singulus Technologies has formed a new joint venture, Singulus Solar, to provide manufacturing equipment for TOPCon and heterojunction (HJT) cells and modules.

German quality assurance and testing centre TÜV Rheinlandwill present a traceability testing service for modules at Intersolar Europe 2024.

Independent power producer (IPP) Alight has signed an agreement to connect a 100MW solar PV park in Finland.

The UK and the Ireland I-SEM are also top markets for renewables and battery energy storage systems (BESS) co-location in Europe.