Europe

Perovskite solar cell developer Oxford Photovoltaics (PV) said it had moved both its headquarters and R&D operations to a new site in the university city of Oxford.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants to maintain “broad energy co-operation” with the European Union (EU) post-Brexit.

PV Tech recently met up with Christian Buchner - Vice President of the Photovoltaics BU at leading PV equipment supplier SCHMID Group - ahead of the forthcoming PV CellTech 2018 meeting in Penang, Malaysia on 13-14 March 2018, an event SCHMID has been strongly supporting for the past few years.

News from Hevel, a Solaria lawsuit, US$100m for solar from the Green Climate Fund, more Japanese finance for Canadian Solar and a new home for Intersolar India.

Vattenfall has announced plans to invest up to €100 million in developing solar plants over the next two years.

Major China-based PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow Power Supply Co has reported preliminary unaudited revenue for 2017, which surpasses European rival, SMA Solar Technology’s revenue figures for the first time.

Leading into the forthcoming PV CellTech 2018 meeting in Penang, Malaysia on 13-14 March 2018, PV Tech caught up with Gordon Deans P.Eng, founder & COO of Aurora Solar Technologies Inc., the inline solar cell measurement equipment specialist that is currently going through a rapid growth phase in new order intake from the PV industry.

Solar PV manufacturer SolarWorld Americas said it had been given a US$5 million loan to support a return to full manufacturing capacity, which would add around 200 jobs, sometime in the third quarter of 2018.

Hive Energy has secured planning approval to develop what it claims to be Andalucia’s first subsidy free solar park in Espejo, Cordoba region, standing at 45.6MW.

The economics of solar-and-storage in the UK are being proven, according to Anesco, the developer of one such project.