AS Published on Sunday 21 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:Europe, stopping / restarting of activity
The catastrophic situation of the European PV industry
Ultra-low prices should persist at least through 2024.
In 2023, the EU's estimated photovoltaic panel production capacity on paper amounted to
AS Published on Sunday 21 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:other France, funding
French capital raising in 2023 for solar installations
French start-ups in the energy and environment sectors raised €2.6 billion in 2023. As a result, they captured more than 31% of the market.
AS Published on Sunday 21 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:funding
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt raises $5 billion
Northvolt obtains $5 billion to expand its battery factory in northern Sweden to 60 GWh of production capacity and to build a recycling facility on the same site: this financial contribution will enable
AS Published on Saturday 20 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:Europe, trade war
The ESMC believes in competition with forced labour, not a general policy
The ESMC letter, signed by 37 European manufacturers, makes the link between forced labour in China and "unsustainably low prices".
L R AS Published on Saturday 20 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:industry, industrial strategy
Europe's Sinovoltaics sets up in the United States
German-Dutch solar testing company Sinovoltaics is to expand its operations in the US market as a result of
AS Published on Saturday 20 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:industry, industrial strategy
Faced with competition from China, Meyer Burger prefers to take refuge in America
Strong competition on panel prices in Europe forces Meyer Burger to close its production unit
L R AS Published on Monday 15 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:new development
QCells to supply 12 GW of panels to Microsoft
QCells will supply 12 GW of panels and engineering services,
L R AS Published on Sunday 14 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:miscellaneous financial, French companies
Neoen expands in France and Italy
Neoen launches construction of its first three solar power plants with a total capacity of
L R AS Published on Sunday 14 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:miscellaneous financial
Is Meyer Burger experiencing difficulties?
The Swiss newspaper Le Temps has published an article on the fall in the share price of Meyer Burger, which is now back in the black.
AS Published on Sunday 14 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:various products
New robots to monitor panel quality
The increasing size of solar power plants and the shortage of manpower are prompting managers to look at other ways of inspecting panels.
Some are using
L R AS Published on Sunday 14 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:R&D
New technology for perovskite panels
China's Mellow Energy and Jinan University have used a new interconnection technology on a perovskite panel. They used a protective layer
AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:trade war
The gap between China's capacity and the rest of the world is growing even wider!
To break China's dominance in renewable energy, other countries would have to invest $700 billion in the mining and manufacturing sectors to develop their production capacity. This concerns supply chains
L R AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:miscellaneous financial
Nextracker is now separate from its former parent company Flex
Nextracker has just finalised its separation from its parent company, as the 51.7% held by Flex has been distributed to its shareholders.
AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:trade war
The American company Auxin Solar relaunches legal proceedings against Chinese products
The initiator of the request for tariffs on imports of Chinese solar products in 2022, the American company Auxin Solar, is relaunching legal proceedings against the US Department of Commerce.
L R AS Published on Monday 18 December 2023 - n° 470 - Categories:industrial strategy
Company highlights: SMA in the United States, Enphase inverters, Scatec 540 MW plant, Nextracker 10 GW plant
Company news: SMA in the US, Enphase inverters, Scatec 540 MW plant, Nextracker 10 GW
SMA plans to build an inverter production site in the United States, with an annual capacity of