Ireland has decided to abolish Value Added Tax on new solar panels installed by households to save them €1,000, says the country’s Minister of Environment.
Germany’s March 1, 2023 ground mounted solar PV auction round with 1.95 GW capacity offered attracted 2.869 GW in response.
BMWK is funding a study called Libertas to explore the feasibility of setting up entire PV ecosystem in Germany and Europe.
Kosovo has published its Energy Strategy for 2022-2031 eying 1.6 GW total renewable energy capacity by 2031 as the country seeks to phase out coal by 2050.
Bundesnetzagentur says Germany installed as much as 1.62 GW new solar PV capacity with 746 MW added in February 2023. It has also adjusted January numbers.
Solitek plans to build a new 600 MW solar PV panel production factory in Italy. It expects an investment of nearly €50 million to bring the fab online.
Qcells says its solar supplier HAGA will build a new advanced materials manufacturing fab in Georgia to become the sole US producer to roll out EVA films.
Enel Green Power (EGP) has started construction on a 170 MW solar PV project equipped with bifacial panels and trackers in Italy’s Viterbo province.
Duke Energy has started building its 1st floating solar PV project on pilot basis on the cooling pond of its Hines Energy Complex in Bartow.
Sweden’s Energy Market Inspectorate is contemplating allowing network operators to set their own electricity network fee for small scale power producers.
Federal Council of Switzerland has approved amendments that simplify the approval process for large scale solar PV systems.
US can achieve its decarbonization goals faster and reduce climate change faster if solar panel manufacturing can fully return to the US by 2035.
New solar PV capacity addition in the US dropped 16% YoY to 20.2 GW DC in 2022, but a ‘robust return to growth’ for this market in 2023 is expected.
Sol Systems and Google have entered a new partnership to bring online 225 MW DC new solar and 18 MW battery storage capacity in the US.
Silfab Solar says its 3rd US manufacturing factory will have host 1 GW annual cell production and an additional 1.2 GW module assembly capacity.