Spain launches call for access to 3.68 GW of grid capacity
The Spanish government has kicked off its first grid-access tender for 3,681 MW at eight transmission nodes across six regions, targeting areas with large-scale industrial demand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New solar trade cases focus on Asian countries
A US solar manufacturing group has filed trade petitions targeting cell and module imports from Indonesia, India and Laos, seeking antidumping and countervailing duties on largely Chinese-produced products. The action could trigger new AD/CVD investigations by the US Department of Commerce.
China’s upstream solar market signals strong price gains amid government intervention
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.
Envision Energy, FERA to develop 1 GW of wind, 1.5 GWh of storage in Australia
Envision Energy and FERA Australia have agreed to collaborate on large-scale hybrid renewable energy projects across Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM), with the potential to deliver up to 1.5 GWh of battery energy storage.
Photovoltaic inventions increased seventeen-fold in three decades
The European Patent Office says China has overtaken other countries in photovoltaic patent filings over the past 15 years, while European startups and universities retain a lead in agrivoltaics and niche solar applications.
