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French business Carbon SAS has named the southerly French community of Fos-sur-mer in the Bouches-du-Rhône department as the site for its scheduled solar manufacturing facility.

For the month of January, 56,620 photovoltaic systems with an overall capacity of 780.7 megawatts (MW) were freshly reported to the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), of which 760.4 MW were supported by the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) and 20.4 MW were unsubsidized systems.

Nano-textured surface areas are an interesting strategy for maximizing the optical qualities for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have actually checked out the growth of different textures of silicon surface areas making use of different industrial additives as well as their efficiency in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and also SHJ-- perovskite tandem solar cells.

The initial solar farms are anticipated to find on stream by 2025

IEL from western France bought a spatial preparation document for its 90 MW solar park project near Čoka in Serbia's far north, near the Romanian border.

The 2MW batch is the initial commitment under a European effort

The development of solar energy in Germany proceeded at a strong pace at the start of 2023 with 780 MW of new systems linked to the grid but the recently set up onshore wind capacity went down sharply to 85.8 MW in January.

The PPA covers power from the Breach PV project

Lithuanian renewables programmer Green Genius said on Wednesday that it has signed two power acquisition agreements (PPA) to supply Polish energy trader Respect Energy with electrical energy from solar (PV) assets with a complete capacity of 41 MW.

Worldwide independent solar energy producer (IPP) Sonnedix Power Holdings Ltd has actually signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide the output from 77 MW of solar farms in Spain.

US data centre company Equinix Inc (NASDAQ: EQIX) stated that it has actually signed five power purchase agreements (PPAs) to obtain 225 MW of solar energy and support new construct in Spain.

Spanish solar power developer-operator Solaria Energia y Medio Ambiente SA (BME: SLR) said on Thursday that it has effectively connected its 626-MW Cifuentes-Trillo solar PV complex to the grid in Spain.

Around 87 percent of German imports for photovoltaic or pv systems came from individuals's Republic of China in 2022.

Italian module maker FuturaSun will certainly debut its new "Velvet" module series at the Solar Solutions event in Amsterdam from March 14-16. Shipments of the glass-glass modules with bifacial heterojunction (HJT) cells are scheduled to start in June.

Lightsource bp has actually obtained the environmental go-ahead for 19 solar power projects in Spain. The firm will bring an investment of concerning EUR 1.2 billion for the solar projects.