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ARENA is providing up to AU$32.3m to set up factories for robots that install solar modules and drive foundation piles.

Germany and the wider EU can use its research and development strengths to stay competitive in the global solar PV manufacturing industry, according to a group of industry and research bodies.

ARENA has announced up to AU$105.6 million for 20 research and development projects aimed at reducing the cost of large-scale solar.

US perovskite solar technology company Caelux has signed two agreements with Indian solar manufacturers to produce perovskite-silicon “Hybrid Tandem” modules.

German solar energy research institute ISC Konstanz has launched five new publicly funded research projects covering the full PV value chain.

Researchers from HZB and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin have achieved a record 25.5% conversion efficiency in a CIGS-perovskite tandem PV cell.

UK-based perovskite PV specialist Oxford PV has joined a British research project to develop electric vehicle-integrated solar technologies. 

Despite PV’s maturity, a new paper argues that its growing global significance makes ongoing research essential.

Factors including import duties and changing tax rates in China have driven up US module prices, according to CEA's latest pricing report.

German research centre Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has claimed a silicon/perovskite tandem cell efficiency record of 32.5%.