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In highly regulated energy markets, policy decisions can make or break new technologies, strategies, and even entire industries.
Support from policymakers, in the form of procurement exercises, priority dispatch, tax incentives and a wealth of other instruments, has been vital to the global solar industry’s success, and new mechanisms to support growth in energy storage are an increasingly important part of the story today.
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Avoiding IP issues
Recent disputes involving tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cell technology illustrate how patent enforcement can shape manufacturing strategy, constrain technology adoption, and create downstream ripples. Solar cell technology provides a useful lens for understanding how intellectual property (IP) risk operates across the US solar industry, as Isaku Begert, an associate at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, explains.
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Peru proposes national energy planning framework with solar and storage scenarios
Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) has published draft provisions to establish a national energy planning framework covering long-, medium-, and short-term horizons. The proposal does not include specific deployment targets for solar PV or energy storage but aims to develop the scenarios, supply-demand balances, and projections needed to guide their integration into the country’s energy system.
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Peru proposes national energy planning framework with solar and storage scenarios
Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) has published draft provisions to establish a national energy planning framework covering long-, medium-, and short-term horizons. The proposal does not include specific deployment targets for solar PV or energy storage but aims to develop the scenarios, supply-demand balances, and projections needed to guide their integration into the country’s energy system.
Avoiding IP issues
Recent disputes involving tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cell technology illustrate how patent enforcement can shape manufacturing strategy, constrain technology adoption, and create downstream ripples. Solar cell technology provides a useful lens for understanding how intellectual property (IP) risk operates across the US solar industry, as Isaku Begert, an associate at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, explains.
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United Solar completes $1.6 billion raise for Oman polysilicon factory
United Solar announced financial close on a $50 million equity investment from the International Finance Corporation. With this, the company says it has completed the $1.6 billion funding for the polysilicon factory it is currently working to bring online in Oman’s Sohar Free Zone.
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