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Italian company Elgea specializes in integrating solar on highway networks. CEO Laura Onnis told pv magazine it has identified 300 sites along 3,000 km of Italian highways and is pushing ahead with project development. The first plants will be built in the northern Italian provinces of Milan and Vercelli, and in Molise, to the south.

After a global flurry of green hydrogen announcements, fuel cell company insolvencies, and a sharp market reassessment, solar developers are questioning near-term green hydrogen demand. pv magazine’s Carrie Hampel takes a look at the international landscape.

Restraint from China’s biggest polysilicon producers slashed output during January but with hydropower prices falling, how long will voluntarily imposed factory utilization rates of less than 40% persist?

Efforts to establish solar manufacturing in the United States, on the back of generous Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies, have had mixed results. While module assembly facilities appeared swiftly, cell production capacity trails far behind and current policy uncertainty is leaving more questions than answers for solar manufacturers of all sizes.

In December 2024, the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) published its Supply Chain Traceability Standard in a bid to establish best practices for monitoring and sharing information on solar supply chains. pv magazine spoke to Alexia Ruvoletto, SSI’s outgoing head of secretariat, about the initiative and its achievements.

Developers from the renewable energy and data center markets are working to find common ground to meet surging energy demand fueled by the AI boom.

Agrivoltaics combines clean energy generation on dual-use sites where land productivity can continue, and even be enhanced, offering big possibilities for Italy, as Everoze partners Simon Hughes and Dario Brivio explain.

While some clean energy executives are worried over the new US administration and its stance on the energy transition, others have been talking up the fossil fuel industry-friendly aspects of flow batteries that may be needed to power a boom in artificial intelligence-focused data centers.

The second Donald Trump administration has put up roadblocks to clean energy investment but renewable energy analysts say superior technology and its economic benefits will ultimately prevail.

Entries are now open for the pv magazine Awards 2025, the gold standard for excellence in the solar and storage industries. If you have recently launched a new product, commissioned a new project, or taken a major step with sustainability, then we would like to hear from you.