Europe

Paper by Finland’s LUT and others latest to predict bright future for hybrids, amid claims that today’s grid parity in Spain and Italy will extend to Germany and Finland by 2025.

Shipment surge helps ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member report Q2 2019 revenue of around US$1.17bn, a new quarterly record.

Agreement between R.Power Group and mBank for latter to finance under-construction pipeline is touted as country’s largest bank-backed solar arrangement to date.

Energy storage’s state-of-play, bifacial's fortunes in the trade war era and Latin American solar's rising star are among the key themes of latest edition of Solar Media’s journal.

Leading ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has reiterated PV module shipments to be in 14-15GW range in 2019 but noted that its order book for 2020 was rapidly filling up, due to strong global demand.

The forthcoming ground-mounted and rooftop tenders will help France move towards target of quadrupling its solar capacity by 2028.

The Norwegian developer also switched on 65MW of new capacity in Egypt's giant Benban complex this week.

Duo inks 12-year PPA for 50MWp Don Rodrigo 2, already under construction just a few kilometres away from 175MWp predecessor near Spain's Seville.

‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JA Solar has supplied 33.1MW of mono-PERC panels to Ukraine-based project developer, UDP Renewables for the Scythia-Solar-2 PV power plant in the Zaporizhia region of the country.

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) is including a number of key module reliability tests to its PV Module Product Qualification Program (PQP) that is more responsive to downstream market needs.