Europe

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.

Solar engineering software company PVCase has launched a project planning platform designed to cover the entire construction and planning process for PV projects.

Replacing outdated inverters can significantly boost the yield of a PV power plant and rectify equipment failures. Jörn Carstensen of Germany-based green-tech looks at the technical, financial and logistical considerations involved in a successful inverter repowering project.