Renewable Energy

The US Interior Dept. slashes public land energy project fees by 80%, surpassing 25 GW clean energy goal for 2025.

VINCI Concessions launches rooftop solar plant at Toulon Hyères Airport that is now the 1st airport in France to achieve net zero emissions.

The European Commission (EC) has proposed the European Solar Charter (ESC) in response to the challenges facing the continent’s solar manufacturing industry. The document sets out a series of voluntary actions to be undertaken to support the EU photovoltaic sector and bears no mention of EU trade tariffs or restrictions on cheap solar panel imports.

Turkey’s total installed PV capacity reached 12.4 GW at the end of February. Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar says the country aims to add 3.5 GW of PV every year through to 2035.

SPIE buys MBG Energy, EPS signs solar PPAs in Serbia, SolarDuck certified, Encavis & Better Energy sign PPAs, Albania approves 70.6 MW solar.

AGL partners with SunDrive to establish solar module manufacturing at Liddell site in NSW, aiming to create jobs & boost domestic PV industry.

The Dutch government, through a new open-access PV database, has discovered that approximately 50% of all rooftops in the Netherlands could potentially host PV systems. However, only 8% of them could immediately accommodate solar arrays without the need for obstacle removal.

The US solar industry experienced project delays and cancellations when anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariff enforcement threatened supply in the past. Another round may be on the way soon, according to Roth Capital Partners.

Swedish court rejects European Energy’s Svedberga Solar Project. Danish company urging legislative changes for large-scale solar ventures.