Featured in Powering Through – 05-2025

Still fighting the fight

European solar manufacturers are struggling against low-cost competition from Asia and a severely oversupplied market. Many are still pushing for revival, as Valerie Thompson reports.

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Valerie Thompson

02 May 2025

Peter Fath, CEO of German engineer RCT Solutions, believes that European solar production is a necessity driven by geopolitical concern, economics, and the European Union’s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). Resilience requires domestic clean energy infrastructure and “Made-in-Europe” technology, said the CEO, whose company has worked on 72 GW of solar factories worldwide.“This is especially true …

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