Latest PV market updates
Desertec agreement postponed; project details unveiled
The first Desertec Industry Initiative (DII) reference projects are currently being planned. However, an intergovernmental agreement is still to be signed. Despite this, new details have emerged over RWE’s planned Moroccan solar...
Big interest in Poland’s PV market
Currently the government in Warsaw is still struggling with the reorganization of its solar subsidies. Nevertheless, project planners have already put their hopes in a market that promises attractive subsidies for both large and...
Algeria plans over 3 GW of solar
Algerian state-owned company Sonelgaz intends to deploy more than four GW of renewable energy in Algeria within the next decade, most of which will comprise solar power.
EU permits expanded range of duty-free Chinese imports; comments on Chinese polysilicon investigation
With the fallout from the ongoing EU anti-dumping investigation into Chinese photovoltaic products continuing with yesterday’s Chinese criticism of FIT subsidies in European member states, the union has muddied the waters further...
Moncada plans 189 MW South African PV project
Italian renewables company Moncada Group has won the second tender issued by the South African Department of Energy to build a 189 MW, €240 million photovoltaic plant in De Aar, near Cape Town.
Serbia: More details emerge on OneGiga PV project
At one GW, Serbia is planning to build the world’s largest photovoltaic project. Project developer, Securum Equity Partners & Associates shares more project and manufacturing details with pv magazine.
South African PV developers to invest $114 million in women
Eighteen photovoltaic developers, who have finally signed contracts for 651.53 MW worth of projects in South Africa on Monday, are among 28 renewable energy companies that will allocate US$114 million of their investment to women...