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Just a few months after beginning construction on a cell manufacturing factory in Egypt, Singapore’s EliTe Solar has opened a cell manufacturing facility in Indonesia. The Indonesian project took around eight months to complete from site selection to opening.

The Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI)’s data from the first nine months of 2024 shows new applications for the Solar PV retrofit scheme are steadily increasing following a slump. However, this flurry of application activity may be influenced by an impending grant reduction effective from Jan. 1, 2025.

In the third quarter of 2024, the US installed 3.8 GW of storage across all segments, 80% increase from Q3 2023.

The developers of the first-of-its-kind lead battery-powered EV charging station, currently located in Missouri, say they plan to roll it out across the US.

Better Energy has connected its second Swedish solar project of 2024 to the grid. The 24 GWh Lidköping project joins the 25 GWh Studsvik facility, which is already operational.

The PV industry is embracing artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) techniques to automate operations and maintenance (O&M) diagnostics and predictive analytics in PV systems. More transparency and standard definitions are needed, however, as US-based Sandia Labs scientists Joshua Stein and Marios Theristis explain.

Urgent responsibility was the overriding theme of the 15th annual International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) assembly, which convened on Jan. 12 in Abu Dhabi.

Masdar and Emirates Water and Electricity Co. (EWEC) plan to build a $6 billion, 5 GW/19 GWh solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi, with operations set to start by 2027.

The 2 GW Al Dhafra solar park covers an area of 21.5 square km in the sandy outskirts of the suburb Dhafra near Abu Dhabi. pv magazine visited to get the lowdown on the plant’s specs and how it is contributing to the local energy landscape.

From modest beginnings in 2011, Power Capital Renewable Energy (PCRE) has become one of Ireland’s foremost independent power producers (IPPs). Joint CEO and co-founder Justin Brown told pv magazine that despite Ireland’s challenging environment for solar, the company sees a lot of opportunity and is taking full advantage.