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AMPYR, hep Solar Forge €50m German Rooftop PV Growth Alliance
AMPYR Distributed Energy and hep solar form €50 m venture to install 50 MW of fully funded rooftop PV and storage for German industrial and municipal customers.
Jul 11, 2025 // Rooftop PV, Germany, PPA, Europe, AMPYR
Goldbeck Solar Set to Launch 28-MWp Polish PV Park
Goldbeck Solar powers up Poland with a 28-MWp PV park, boosting the nation's renewable energy journey and reinforcing Europe's clean energy momentum.
Feb 17, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Poland, Europe, PV Power Plant, Goldbeck Solar
Car industry copper demand to surge 250% due to EVs
By considering use of the metal in charging infrastructure, analyst Wood Mackenzie has found higher demand from the mobility sector than is the case if only the volume of the material required for vehicle construction is examined.
Aug 12, 2019 // Technology, Transport, Wood Mackenzie, Global electric vehicle, UBS Evidence Lab, Henry Salisbury, Aluminum, ads-tec GmbH, HPC Booster, battery
THEE, CEE in joint 500MW subsidy-free PV push in Germany
Hamburg-based companies Thüga Erneuerbare Energien GmbH (THEE) and the CEE Group have signed off on a memorandum of understanding that will see both entities jointly operate large-scale photovoltaic plants in Germany without subsidies.
Aug 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, Europe, THEE, cee, Dr. Björn Keßel
SMA reports 42% rise in turnover, Meyer Burger swings to a loss
German inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology reported strong financial results for the very first half of 2020 in spite of the Covid-19 dilemma. Meyer Burger, nevertheless, saw sales as well as profits decline.
Aug 14, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Germany, Europe, meyer burger, SMA, Jürgen Reinert
Sunlight Group bags US$ 290 million in finances
Greece-based battery maker Sunlight Group has received EUR275 million (US$ 290 million) in car loan funding to expand production and study.
Jun 27, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Greece, Germany, Europe, lithium-ion, loans, gigafactory, Sunlight Group
NextEnergy Acquires First Asset in India, Solar Plant From IBC SOLAR
NextPower III, NextEnergy Capital's third institutional solar fund, has actually finished its initial acquisition in India-- a 27.4 MWp plant in Odisha from IBC SOLAR
Jul 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, finance, nextenergy capital, IBC Solar, solar plant, Projects, Filinto Martins, NextEnergy India Solar Plant, NextPower Fund III, Aldo Beolchini
Trianel Targets 350 MW Annual Renewable Growth in Germany
Trianel Energieprojekte GmbH & Co KG accelerates Germany's green transition with plans to add 350 MW of wind and solar power annually, boosting sustainable energy infrastructure.
Feb 27, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, Europe, Trianel Energieprojekte GmbH & Co KG
Canadian Solar trumpets new cell conversion efficiency breakthrough
Canadian Solar has attained what it describes as a new milestone for PV cell conversion efficiency, taking five months to break its own record in the field.
Sep 18, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Canadian Solar, wafer, GCL-Poly, p5, multicrystalline, isfh, mono PERC cells, Dr. Shawn Qu
Stuttgart Utility Partners for Major Solar Expansion
Stuttgart teams up with hep global to power the future—200 MWp of solar energy to boost climate neutrality and light up 65,000 homes!
Nov 11, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Stuttgart
The bearable lightness of solar
The weight of a thin-film rooftop PV installation at Netherlands football club AZ Alkmaar has been highlighted in media reports as a possible cause of a stadium roof collapse. However, a full investigation is yet to be launched and one German specialist said studies have shown flush-mount PV panels do not increase static wind loads on rooftops.
Aug 12, 2019 // BIPV, Technology, Germany, rooftop, Netherlands, AZ Alkmaar’s stadium, Andries Broersma, Hanergy system, Thorsten Kray
Examining CPM-based passive cooling for CPV systems
A global study group has checked change product warm sinks for warm monitoring on a concentrator photovoltaic or pv system. It discovered that raising over height ratios decreases the development of stratified fluid layers, which consequently reduces the possible hot spots in the upper part of the solar cell.
Aug 17, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Japan, Asia, Africa, Egypt, cooling, CPV systems
How Co2 Gas Can Aid Establish High-Performance Solar Cells
Treating silicon with carbon dioxide gas in plasma handling brings simplicity as well as control to an essential action for making solar cells
Nov 16, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, KAUST, Areej Alzahrani, Stefaan De Wolf
Highfield Solar Protects EUR160 Million Funding for 282 MW Solar Projects In Ireland
Highfield Solar secured financing of Euro 160 million for 2 solar PV projects.
Both projects are 141 MWs each and also are expected to start building and construction by 2022.
Jul 20, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Solar Project, Peter Kavanagh, Anton Milner, Aura Power, Highfield Energy, Highfield Solar, ib vogt GmbH, Ireleand
United States Vanadium Introduces $2.1 M Manufacturing Capacity Expansion
American chemicals producer US Vanadium has actually announced a $2.1 million expansion of its manufacturing capacity for ultra-high-purity electrolyte made use of by grid-level vanadium flow batteries (VRFB).
Sep 6, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, VRFB, North America, Vanadium, CellCube, Enerox GmbH, ultra-high-purity electrolyte, vanadium flow batteries








