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Fraunhofer ISE has developed a solar cell which uses “one-tenth” of the amount of silver as a standard cell.

The German Federal Network Agency, the Bundesnetzagentur, has launched the country’s latest rooftop solar PV, seeking 282MW.

Swiss solar manufacturer Meyer Burger has reduced shifts for around 300 employees at its Thalheim cell manufacturing facility amid supply chain challenges.

Germany’s latest public auction for ground-mounted solar PV capacity ended “significantly oversubscribed”, according to the German electricity regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur.

Germany's proposal to allow international carbon credits to reach EU decarbonisation targets “risks undermining the target’s credibility”, according to think tank Agora.

The Schletter Group will launch a new plant design tool for use in the rooftop sector this month, dubbed Schletter Creator.

Scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and weather protection provider VOEN have developed lightweight modules for agrivoltaics (agriPV) applications.

Hugo Sánchez Ortiz reports on some of the findings of research into how best to balance land use for energy and food production.

The German auction for solar installations on buildings and noise barriers once again ended up oversubscribed, this time by 1.2 times.

Fraunhofer ISE research suggests that the average monocrystalline silicon PV module’s power output was 1.2% lower than its nominal capacity.