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3 days ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Policy uncertainty in the US and ensuing financial volatility is likely to disrupt investment in clean energy, according to a recent report from Crux. A report published by sustainable finance company Crux said potential policy changes from the White House could threaten capital access for developers and manufacturers in the clean energy industry.
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4 days ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Every new iteration of Kiwa PV Evolution Labs’ (PVEL) Module Reliability Scorecard comes with its share of positive and negative news. On the positive front, for example, 50 manufacturers have been named as “Top Performers” in the 2025 edition of the scorecard in at least one category.
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4 days ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
A total of 83% of module manufacturers have had at least one test failure in the Kiwa PVEL 2025 Module Reliability Scorecard, up from 66% a year ago. Kiwa PVEL’s flagship Product Qualification Program (PQP), published today and now in its eleventh year, has seen a record growth in module test failures, despite last year’s already-record numbers.
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5 days ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Canadian solar manufacturer Heliene has opened a 500MW module assembly plant in the US state of Minnesota. Located in Rogers, it is the company’s third operational manufacturing line and its third in Minnesota. The other two lines are part of Heliene’s module manufacturing plant in Mountain Iron, with 300MW—which was increased back in 2023 to produce TOPCon modules—and 500MW annual nameplate capacity, respectively, bringing the company’s total annual nameplate capacity in the US to 1.3GW.
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6 days ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
San Francisco Bay Area, USA PV Tech has been running an annual PV CellTech Conference since 2016. PV CellTech USA, on 7-8 October 2025 is our third PV CellTech conference dedicated to the U.S. manufacturing sector.
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1 week ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Solar and wind curtailment has increased by 29% between 2023 and 2024 in California, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Solar PV accounted for nearly the entirety of the curtailed capacity last year, making 93% of all energy curtailed in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) territory, which covers most of the US state of California.
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1 week ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Spanish independent power producer (IPP) has unveiled two new solar-plus-storage projects, one in Central Chile and the other in Spain. Aimed to replicate the model used for the Oasis de Atacama project in Chile, the IPP will build a second solar-plus-storage project in the South American country.
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1 week ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has launched a Federal Council initiative to accelerate the development of floating solar (FPV) on artificial lakes. The state calls on the federal government to introduce more flexible regulations, given that the current requirements from the Federal Water Resources Act “severely” restrict its coverage area and distance.
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1 week ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Renewables developer Solaria has reached an agreement in principle with Spanish bank Banco Sabadell to finance a 175MW solar PV plant in Spain. Located in the central province of Guadalajara, the ‘Oliva Solar’ project will be linked with the development of a data center based on a self-consumption model, with a guaranteed capacity of 70MW.
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1 week ago | 
pv-tech.org | Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
The Turkish Ministry of Trade has started an antidumping investigation on solar PV aluminium frames and junction boxes coming from China. Turkish companies Arslan Aluminium, Lazer Solar Energy Aluminium Systems and Pantech Aluminium filed the requests regarding the alleged antidumping of PV aluminium frames, while Ekinler Industry and Hatko called for the investigation into junction boxes.
