The Western Australian government has released the results of a first-of-its-kind project, which combined hydrogen and solar to create a microgrid.
The world will add 3.8TWac of new solar capacity by 2033, alongside 1.6TW of new wind capacity, as governments look to meet their decarbonisation goals.
On Wednesday (3 July), the Australian federal government introduced the new ‘Future Made in Australia Bill 2024’ to parliament to unlock private sector investment to bolster renewable energy technologies such as solar.
As the global push for sustainable energy solutions intensifies, the US is strategically positioning itself to reduce reliance on imported solar components and to build up its domestic clean energy manufacturing capabilities. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in 2022, was a pivotal move in this direction.
Germany generated more power from renewable energy sources in the first half of 2024 than at any other time in its history, according to a report from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).
Innovations in wafer sophistication and advances in cell output voltage will be key developments in the upstream solar industry, if the world is to realise the potential of solar power.
British-Australian multinational mining company Rio Tinto is set to develop two 5.25MW solar farms in the Gove Peninsula of the Northern Territory, Australia.
European floating solar (FPV) company SolarDuck has installed an offshore FPV pilot site in the Dutch North Sea.
French PV manufacturing startup Carbon has announced plans for its next facility, a research and development (R&D) and training facility in Istres, that it aims to build near the south coast of France.
European electricity trade association Eurelectric has published its latest figures into the European energy mix, and reports that, in the first half of the year, renewable energy accounted for more than half of the continent’s power supply.
“It’s been a massive disappointment,” says Gunter Erfurt, CEO of Meyer Burger, of the EU’s efforts to support solar manufacturing.
The falling costs of solar and wind power have increased their value as a hedge against wholesale power price fluctuations, but due to market and contractual structures, the benefits to US consumers in the form of lower bills are not always felt.
