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From the world’s largest project being commissioned to a possible downturn for solar manufacturers in 2024, and including the US Department of Treasure releasing guidance from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here, PV Tech runs down its top 10 stories of the past 12 months.

The influx of Chinese modules to Europe, EU's revised solar capacity targets and manufacturing expansion plans in the US were some of the major issues happened in Q3 2023.

The credit facility consists of US$275 million term loan, a $175 million revolving credit facility, and a $150 million letter of credit facility.

Thin-film manufacturer First Solar is well placed to weather any downturn in PV manufacturing going into 2024.

Longroad Energy has achieved financial close on a large-scale solar-plus-storage in Arizona, part of a portfolio it acquired from vertically integrated solar manufacturer First Solar.

US cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film module manufacturer First Solar has announced an agreement to supply utility-scale renewables developer Swift Current Energy with 500GW of thin film modules.

First Solar has reached a module backlog of 81.8GW, which it expects to extend into 2030, as of the third quarter of 2023.

Solar developer Lightsource bp has completed construction of the 135MW Conway Solar at Happy project in White County, Arkansas alongside state utility Conway Corp.

Large PV manufacturers committing to perovskites is an encouraging sign for the perovskite sector, according to a Rethink Energy report.

2023 is on track to be a “record year” for solar PV installations in the US; through August, 8.4GW of utility-scale solar was installed, 50% more than the equivalent point in 2022. In those deployments, some trends have emerged.