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]

Announced mid-May, a 1.5 GW solar tender by the Indian utility Tamil Nadu Generation Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has attracted technical bids of a staggering 3.7 GW, in what appears to be the corporation’s most successful tender to date. TANGEDCO’s tarnished rep......[More]

Recom Italia, the Italian unit of Germany-based solar manufacturer Recom, was chosen as preferred bidder for the acquisition of French module producer Sillia VL, which filed for insolvency in early March. The announced was given in a statement of the Tribunal of Commerc......[More]

The German grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur has reported that 32 project proposals with a combined capacity of 201 MW were selected in the latest auction for PV projects ranging in size from 750 kW to 10 MW. The highest bid was €0.059/kWh, while the average final price ......[More]