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PV Tech sat down with Singapore-headquartered solar module manufacturer REC Solar at the Solar & Storage Live 2023 event in Birmingham, UK, to discuss n-type production, its European plans and why price isn’t everything when it comes to solar.

Facing an auditorium of the biggest names in solar, the panelists in the discussion emphasised the central role that ESG and supply chain traceability is coming to play in the solar industry.

PVcase has just launched PVcase Roof Mount, a cutting-edge tool for commercial and industrial rooftop solar installations.

The EU will now meet 42.5% of its energy demand with renewables by 2030, up from the 40% originally included in the REPowerEU scheme.

Evergrow has claimed the first tax credit transaction using transferability under the Inflation Reduction Act for a solar plant in Connecticut.

Sunstone Credit on its takeaways from the RE+ event and the biggest trends looking forward for the US solar industry.

sonnenConnect will deploy a time of use (TOU) algorithm which, in conjunction with a battery (which NEM 3.0 reportedly incentivises), “ensures customers will not pay peak-period pricing at any point throughout the year”, the company said.

The German government is considering the possibility of imposing trade barriers on Chinese-imported solar modules and components to Europe, according to Reuters.

The expansion of solar PV and battery storage is keeping the global net zero 1.5 degree pathway open, and the current host of planned manufacturing capacity expansions will be enough to meet demand by 2030.

Europe’s main barrier to decarbonising its power supply by 2045 is its aging grid infrastructure, 40% of which is over 40 years old, according to a new report by European electricity industry body Eurelectric.