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Brandenburg wants to explore distributed generation applications such as floating PV, agrivoltaics and rooftop PV to achieve its targeted solar capacity under Energy Strategy.
Solar module prices have never fallen so sharply in such a short period of time. One reason for this is the “PV module glut” in warehouses in Europe, according to pvXchange’s Martin Schachinger.
Germany advanced its hydrogen ambitions this week with a fresh call for the International Green Hydrogen Promotion Program in Latin America.
German PV analyst Karl-Heinz Remmers looks at current price trends in the global and European PV industry. The figures he provides could explain how overcapacity and warehouses full of PV modules are affecting market prices.
Marathon Capital is looking for interested buyers for Redeux Energy’s 11-project solar and storage portfolio.
A team of researchers from Norway analyzed a case study of a cascade hydropower system hybridized with both floating and ground mounted PV under sub-Saharan African market conditions.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE explores the best locations for Germany to import hydrogen and Power-to-X (PtX) products.
With more than 50 GW of module manufacturing announcements made in the United States, annual production capacity will exceed demand by 2025.
At the end of June 2023, France had installed 18.03 GW solar PV capacity cumulatively, according to the SDES.
Clean Energy Associates projects that major Chinese manufacturers will achieve a global solar module manufacturing capacity of 1 terawatt by the end of 2024. Furthermore, this capacity is projected to hit that same mark within China’s borders by 2025.
Since the beginning of 2023 till August, the price of low-cost solar modules in Europe dropped by over 25% to fall under €0.15/W.
Agora Energiewende says Europe needs €30 billion ($32.2 billion) by 2027 to rebuild its PV industry. It calls for up to €30 billion until 2027 and up to €94.5 billion from 2028 to 2034 to revive the European solar sector.
Ongoing innovation in PV cell technology will have major impacts as solar is deployed at a “multi-terawatt scale” over the next two decades, according to a global team of scientists.
While the future looks bright, the US market continues to battle various challenges that analysts believe are stagnating pipeline growth.
UK has awarded a total of 3.7 GW new renewable energy capacity for AR5 auction round.