Max Hall
Latest EU electrolyzer pledge could speed up solar permitting
With an estimated 500 TWh of renewable electricity needed to produce the 10 million tons per year of clean hydrogen wanted by the European Union by 2030, the recent promise to ramp up European electrolyzer production capacity could give a boost to solar developers grappling with sluggish permitting regimes.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Huawei shipped 52 GW of PV inverters in 2021
In other news, Longi reported increased revenue and a slight drop in profits for the full fiscal year 2021, and heterojunction (HJT) photovoltaics manufacturer Golden Solar has leased a 250 MW production line.
Chinese state-owned body enters Wiki-Solar’s ‘gigawatt club’
The 1.36 GW of solar capacity installed by Shanghai Electric across just three projects in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 helped it enter an annual ranking of the global solar industry’s biggest engineering, procurement, and construction contractors.
Self-healing perovskites can withstand fierce cosmic radiation
The development of a set of testing protocols for perovskite solar cells intended for use outside Earth’s atmosphere could lead to the devices being installed permanently, and even manufactured, on the moon.
Module brands that earn the trust of solar installers
The latest global PV installer survey by Germany’s EUPD Research offers a hint of the solar brands which installers, mostly based in Europe, gravitate toward. This year’s report also ventured to South Africa and considered mounting systems for the first time.
Island nation issues tender for first grid-connected solar
The government of Sao Tome and Principe is inviting bids to build a 1.5 MW solar plant which it appears is destined to replace a thermoelectric facility.
SolarEdge expects to break more records in Q1
SolarEdge has reported record revenue in its latest three-month update and expects to have even more business in the second quarter, even if gross margin and profit has declined.
Grid company appeals for flexibility from energy consumers
Tennet has suffered well-cataloged problems attempting to absorb solar projects into parts of its Dutch grid network and is now appealing for help in two pinch provinces.
Enphase predicts another revenue landmark this quarter
Enphase expects the volume of business generated to rise again for the April-June period, accompanied by another bump in battery shipments.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Longi, Zhonghuan raise wafer prices
A Chinese industry group has reported rising polysilicon prices and supply chain problems ahead, but GCL Technology said this week that strong polysilicon and wafer prices were the reason its business performed strongly in 2021.
