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Bulgaria has opened a consultation round, seeking to establish 570 MW wind and solar PV along with 150 MW battery energy storage capacity.

The European Council has adopted the new RED, putting in motion the EU’s plans to aim for 42.5% renewable energy target by 2030, instead of 32%.

1KOMMA5° is to produce TOPCon solar modules in Germany. The plan is to start with 1 GW production capacity by 2024 and scale it up to 5 GW annually by 2030.

Solar PV industry in Europe has voiced its stance against any trade barriers for imported solar modules in a single market

At the end of 2022, the US had a minimum of 947 GW of utility-scale solar power plant capacity in interconnection queues of which 48% or 457 GW was paired with a battery.

Renfe, the state-owned railway company in Spain, will construct a pilot solar PV plant with 20 MW capacity to supply traction energy for its trains.

RCT Power GmbH has launched a ‘Giga-Fab’ in Germany’s Augsburg region with 2 new production lines with a capacity to roll out around 5,000 hybrid solar inverters per month.

Lightstar Renewables has started work on a 2 MW agrivoltaic project that it calls as the 1st such power plant in New York.

The September 1, 2023 innovation auction in Germany was oversubscribed with bids coming in only for solar and storage projects.

Going by the solar workforce boom in the European Union (EU), SolarPower Europe (SPE) has revised its previous forecast of 1 million solar jobs in the bloc by 5 years.

Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) solar module manufacturer First Solar has begun constructing its 5th production factory in the US in Louisiana.

Mey Energy has completed the construction of its 1st solar PV project with 55 MW installed capacity in North Macedonia.

Following an agreement with fellow thin film CdTe module manufacturer First Solar, Toledo has decided to focus on hardened solar panels for geographies with most significant heat, humidity and harsh weather environments.

Estonia has become home to a building integrated PV (BIPV) manufacturing facility which its operator Solarstone calls the ‘largest’ of its kind in Europe by production capacity.

Germany’s monthly installations for solar PV dropped compared to previous months to 1.056 GW.