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The insolvent photovoltaic manufacturer is still talking to potential investment partners, but it claims that it could resume PV module production at its shuttered factory in the Dutch municipality of Zaanstad on short notice.

Over the last decade, DuPont has surveyed more than 2 GW of PV installations and has analyzed a range of failure types and their causes. Hong-Jie Hu, DuPont’s solar technical and development lead in China, says that the materials giant is looking for Australian partners for its Global Field Survey program, with a particular interest in hot and humid and desert environments.

German solar as well as wind ranch operator Encavis AG (ETR: ECV) has agreed to acquire 5 solar parks in the Netherlands with an overall ability of 74 MWp from Norwegian renewables firm Statkraft A/S to increase its generation ability in the country to 180 MWp.

On the first day of this year’s EU PVSEC conference, veteran solar researcher Pierre J Verlinden won the Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics. The award recognized more than 40 years as a leading PV researcher in academia and at leading companies including Sunpower and Trina Solar. Its recipient spoke to pv magazine about what is needed from solar to stave off catastrophic climate change.

Aurora Solar Project has been sold to a new owner. However, there is no guarantee that the project will still be located in Port Augusta.

Regardless of the frequency of aids throughout the power system, the industry does not have any kind of methodically used, standard meaning of what aids are.

Energy significant Shell will certainly start constructing a renewable hydrogen plant in the Netherlands that it said will be the largest project of its kind in Europe when operational in 2025.

The PV technology company has begun making photovoltaic modules at its facility located in Liebenfels.

New study reveals electric trucks as the top choice for slashing road transport emissions, with potential cuts of 75-85% over their lifespan. Hydrogen trucks lag behind, and their future remains uncertain.

Aluminium Féron GmbH & Co. KG from Düren, Germany is presenting a new black backsheet for solar modules at Intersolar.

Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is looking for authorization to establish 350 MW of solar in the state of Baja California. The ranges will be built on the exact same site as the 820 MW Cerro Prieto geothermal project. Nonetheless, it stays vague whether the PV setups mark the company's formal entrance into the solar company.

BlackRock Inc. is launching two funds made to live up to the European Union's highest standard for sustainability, in an initiative to draw in investors seeking the greenest products on the market.

Generadora Metropolitana's CEME1 solar farm in Chile is set to be the largest in the country, powering over half a million homes with clean energy by 2024.

A round-up of the most up to date solar industry news from around the world, as Aquila grabs its very first solar projects in Portugal, among Europe's hottest solar markets, as well as Dehui claims being Vietnam's initial module producer to create next-generation panels.

Innovative solar-plus-storage technology is being created in the United Kingdom.