The acknowledgement by the European Commission (EC) that its minimum import price (MIP) mechanism for solar cells modules imported into Europe has been ineffectual could be undone by the proposal of new mechanism for pricing that SolarPower Europe says “divorces prices ......[More]

Retaining its Q1 2017 assumptions that China will retain its role as the key driver as its 2017 dem reaches 31.5 GW, accounting for 39% of the global market, GTM Research’s latest quarterly report shows that the 2017 global dem will exceed 80 GW for the first time, thou......[More]

The U.K. faces a stiff challenge over the next three years if it is to meet its European Union (EU) target of achieving 15% renewable energy penetration by 2020. The target leaves the country with the fourth-steepest clean energy mountain to climb among EU members behin......[More]

Besides being a major environmental risk to health, air pollution could be a serious threat to the solar industry as well. Looking into the losses caused by accumulation of airborne particles on solar panels, a group of researchers has found that energy output may be re......[More]

The European research organizations ETIP EUREC along with the PV industry association Solarunited have issued an open letter – – Open Letter from European PV Community – in which they request urgent measures for the future of the European solar manufacturers. The letter......[More]

The president of the Togolese Republic, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, has launched the program “CI-ZO”, a rural electrification initiative aimed at bringing solar energy to two million people in the country’s remote areas with no connection to the power system by 2022. If......[More]