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Module quality is suffering as PV producers cut costs

June 4, 2025
PV Talk: Kiwa PVEL's Tristan Erion-Lorico discusses the latest Module Reliability Scorecard and what it reveals about standards in PV manufacturing.
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Record 83% module test failure in Kiwa PVEL’s 2025 Module Reliability Scorecard

June 4, 2025
A total of 83% of module manufacturers have had at least one test failure in the Kiwa PVEL 2025 Module Reliability Scorecard, up from 66% a year ago.
The financing, led by SEB Lithuania and Swedbank Lithuania, will support three renewable energy assets.

European Energy secures US$158 million for 78.5MW solar park and 50MW BESS in Lithuania

June 3, 2025
Danish renewables firm European Energy has secured a €145 million (US$158 million) long-term loan to finance a 78.5MW solar park co-located with a 50MW battery storage plant in Anykščiai, Lithuania.
The project is being constructed by Chint Green Energy and is expected to open in the first quarter of 2026.

PPC adds 88MW Bulgarian solar PV plant to portfolio

June 3, 2025
Greek renewables developer PPC has acquired an 88MW solar PV plant in the village of Vedrare, in the Karlovo region in central Bulgaria.
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Harnessing AI and European space tech to transform energy grids

June 2, 2025
Ben Moore reports on RESPONDENT, a European-funded project that uses space technologies to help integrate renewable energy into the grid.
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Fraunhofer ISE and KAUST develop ‘hybrid’ method for perovskite-silicon cell production

June 2, 2025
A new manufacturing method has produced tandem perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with a conversion efficiency of 27.8%.
Meyer Burger's Thalheim facility in Germany.
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Meyer Burger on the edge following German cell production insolvency

June 2, 2025
Struggling Swiss solar manufacturer Meyer Burger has announced that its two German subsidiaries, including the owner of its solar cell manufacturing facility in Thalheim, are insolvent.
Production of Trina Solar’s 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells. Image: Trina Solar

LECO process can increase resistance of TOPCon cells by ‘orders of magnitude’

June 2, 2025
The LECO process used in the production of TOPCon solar cells could increase their resistances by 'orders of magnitude', per new research.
Covering an area of about 100 hectares, the project is scheduled for completion in March 2026.

Aquila Clean Energy starts construction at 52MW agriPV project in Italy

May 30, 2025
Independent power producer (IPP) Aquila Clean Energy has started construction on a 52MW agrivoltaics (agriPV) project in Italy.
Solar plant in Escuderos, Spain. Image: Grenergy.

Grenergy puts hybrid solar-storage projects in Spain, Chile at heart of €3.5 billion investment plan

May 30, 2025
Spanish independent power producer (IPP) has unveiled two new solar-plus-storage projects, one in Central Chile and the other in Spain.

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