By 2024, the world’s cumulative installed solar capacity will reach 2.2TW, with China alone accounting for 1TW of the total operational capacity. This is the main conclusion of the latest report released this week by the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Systems Program (IEA-PVPS). The report analyzes global installed capacity and technology trends over the past 12 months and h...
Trina Solar announced today that its large-area perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem modules independently developed by the National Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology have made a major breakthrough in conversion efficiency. After independent testing and certification by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Research (Fraunhofer ISE) in Germany, the efficiency of the labora...
The addition of solar panels to existing wind and hydroelectric plants in Turkey could help sidestep growing grid capacity issues, and add 8GW of new capacity to the country’s energy mix. This is according to the latest report from Ember Climate, which found that there is significant potential for hybrid renewable energy projects to improve the country’s domestic electricity gen...
In 1771, Arkwright opened the first water-powered spinning mill in Manchester, marking the beginning of modern factories. At this time, it was more than 100 years before the world's first power station was built, and water power became the energy supply for the earliest factories. A hundred years later, in 1896, the world's first industrial park was launched in the UK. It might be difficult for cr...
Josh Cornes, market research analyst at Solar Media, tracked UK solar installations in the first half of 2025 and found that the growth in installed capacity over the past six months was almost the same as for the whole of 2024. In 2025, the UK's solar installed capacity has exceeded 2GWp, ushering in the best start in nearly a decade, and there are 3.GWp of large-scale ground-mounted photo...
Recently, the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) Yangbajing 50MW Solar-to-Storage Project in Dangxiong County, Tibet, and the SPIC Dangxiong 50MW Solar-to-Storage Project in Dangxiong County, Tibet (collectively, the "Dangxiong Phase I and II Projects"), for which the Guiyang Institute of Energy Engineering and Research (GIERE) was responsible for the EPC general contracting, were successfu...