Europe

Mounting system manufacturer Schletter has unveiled its latest agrivoltaics product at Intersolar Europe 2023 in Munich, Germany.

LONGi has unveiled its latest perovskite/crystalline tandem solar cell at Intersolar, which boasts an efficiency of 33.5%.

From a pool of ten finalists, Intersolar selected three winners prior to this year’s event: Huawei, Aiko Solar and Wavelabs.

The largest of the newly launched TOPCon modules with a power range of 585 to 605Wp provides up to 22.9% efficiency. "This is currently the highest efficiency for a TOPCon module in the market," according to European marketing director Andre Bodenhagen.

As Asia continues to be the key driver for floating solar, in Europe the Netherlands are the ones pushing forward in terms of offshore solar.

Finnish environmental and industrial measurement firm Vaisala has launched a weather station to help enhance the performance of solar power plants, which is showcased at InerSolar 2023.

Private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners has made a voluntary offer to buy the entirety of the shares of Spanish renewable energy developer Opdenergy for €866 million (US$935 million).

BSW forecasts a “double-digit percentage” growth in Germany's demand for solar power systems by the end of the year.

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.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores how Eastern and Southern European countries have emerged in the race as key players for the European Union to reach 740GW of solar capacity installed by 2030.