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...
Market analysis firm LevelTen Energy released a report on European renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs), stating that the average price of solar PPAs fell by over 5% from the first quarter to the second quarter of this year, after three consecutive quarters of stability. Andrés Acosta, LevelTen Energy's Director of European Innovation, stated that this change reflects an "extre...
A new study led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) suggests that a deeper understanding of the type of ultraviolet (UV) radiation used to test solar cells could accelerate their long-term performance evaluation and improve their efficiency. The study focuses on TOPCon solar cells, which have become mainstream in the industry over the past two years, but whose durability has been a major c...