Moldova introduces guarantees of origin certificate for renewables
Moldova has introduced an electronic guarantees of origin system to certify renewable energy production, with certificates recognized across the European Union through integration with the EU-wide register.
European developers signed 20 PPAs for 1,429 MW in June
Swiss-based analytics firm Pexapark says the European power purchase agreement (PPA) market recovered strongly in June following a poor result in May, with solar accounting for the majority of newly-signed capacity.
Solestial designing space solar array with shorter lead time
The U.S.-based manufacturer of silicon solar PV technologies for space announced a project that requires it to manufacture, assemble and integrate 1 kW of solar cells and modules into a novel solar wing within a four-week time-period.
Germany deploys 7.1 GW of solar in H1
Germany added 905 MW of new photovoltaic capacity in June, according to the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), bringing year-to-date solar deployments to more than 7.1 GW.
Forecasts predict strong solar performance for rest of 2025 in Europe, North America
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, forecasts that Europe and North America will benefit from relatively strong solar conditions in the second half of the year, while other major solar markets face more unfavourable trends.
Chinese PV industry Brief: Zhejiang Bangjie drops 18 GW factory plan
Zhejiang Bangjie Holding Group has canceled its planned CNY 8 billion ($1.10 billion) solar manufacturing project in Jiangshan, while Arctech Solar has secured a 2.3 GW tracker deal in Saudi Arabia.
RenewSys to ramp up encapsulant capacity to 30 GW
RenewSys will add eight new encapsulant manufacturing lines at its recently commissioned facility in India, increasing its total encapsulant production capacity to 30 GW across 19 lines.
Compressed air energy storage enhanced by gravity
Scientists in China have simulated an advanced adiabatic compressed air energy storage, to which they added an elastic airbag with a heavy load situated above it. The energy, exergy, and economic analysis of the system showed that, due to the constant weight of the heavy load, the airbag’s pressure level remains unaltered during operation.
Features driving efficiency complicate solar cell disassembly, recycling
Researchers in Germany have sought to identify the features that may define the “ideal recyclable solar cell” and have found that the recyclability of PV devices is usually in contrast with the efforts of reaching high efficiencies.
BBDF 2025: Co-location, hybrid PPAs reshaping the European energy market
BBDF 2025’s “From Solar to BESS: Moving from PV Project Development to BESS With and Without Co-location,” has shown the potential for creating new business modules in the renewable energy business via the so-called hybrid power purchase agreements and the co-location of wind and solar energy assets with battery storage.
