Featured in Bags of cash – 11-2022

Huge room for European PV production

A highly competitive new era of solar installations has arrived. Europe has an important role to play in producing these technologies, argues Javier Sanz, thematic leader of renewable energy for EIT InnoEnergy. And the organization is putting its money where its mouth is.

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Max Hall

09 Nov 2022

Among the young climate technology companies EiT InnoEnergy is supporting is Germany’s NexWafe, which is working to scale up an innovative approach to wafer manufacturing that promises major cost savings. | Photo: NexWafe

The environment for European renewable energy investment has changed, and a major driver has been the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war has shifted governments’ focus to securing energy supply and reducing existing dependencies. The challenge we have, as Europeans, is to secure and diversify our energy supply and, at the same time, press ahead …

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