Featured in Fault lines – 11-2025

Time for action

While targets to build significant PV manufacturing capacity in Europe before 2030 remain in place, progress toward them has stagnated. With the few active manufacturers on the continent struggling to compete, the industry is again calling on the European Union and national governments to introduce various measures to support the buildout of a local supply chain.
Mark Hutchins
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Mark Hutchins
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There has been little to say about European PV manufacturing in recent years, as project developers and policymakers at European Union and national level have been happy to rely primarily on low-cost imports from Asia to power progress toward PV installation goals. This has left manufacturers in Europe struggling to keep up with prices for …

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