The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association predicts that deployment will accelerate as a strong pipeline of private and public utility-scale projects offsets the decline in installations from 2023 levels. January 20, 2025 Patrick Jowett South Africa added approximately 1.1 GW of solar in 2024, according to figures from the South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA).
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews Features , Interviews , Long Reads The project will be deployed at an as-yet-undisclosed location in Abu Dhabi. Image: Masdar. Utility-scale renewable energy developer-operator Masdar has selected Chinese module manufacturers Jinko Solar and JA Solar to supply modules for its 5.2GW solar PV and 19GWh battery storage project
Brazil’s national accreditation body, Inmetro, has authorized six labs across the country to test solar modules. January 20, 2025 Lívia Neves Image: pv magazine From pv magazine Brazil Brazil’s main national accreditation body , Inmetro, has published a list of laboratories authorized for the testing of PV modules in the country’s Official Gazette. The authorized
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A consortium is installing an experimental linear solar park in shade house configuration in Vaucluse, southern France, using high-voltage direct current architecture to reduce electricity losses. January 20, 2025 Francois Puthod From pv magazine France A nearly kilometer-long PV project featuring high-voltage direct current will be tested along the ViaRhôna cycle route in the Rhône
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews Features , Interviews , Long Reads EDP commissioned the Sandrini I and II projects in the fourth quarter of 2024. Image: EDP Renewables North America. Italian renewable energy company Plenitude has acquired a 49% stake in the 300MW Sandrini solar-plus-storage portfolio in California from EDP Renewables North America.
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The New Homes (Solar Generation) Bill, or Sunshine Bill as it was also known, had its second reading in the House of Commons on 17th January but failed to go any further because of government opposition. The Sunshine Bill was a private members’ Bill brought forward by the Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham, Max Wilkinson.
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Published Jan 19, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read Screengrab from an Edmonton police video showing an extensive encampment near Fulton Creek in southeast Edmonton. Photo by Edmonton Police Service Edmonton police and park rangers last week began the final steps of dismantling an elaborate south Edmonton encampment. The site was
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The Genesis sample return capsule after crashing in the Utah desert on Sept. 8, 2004. (Image credit: USAF 388th Range Squadron) In the beginning … there was a thud. It was an unwanted sound, and one that resonated around the world. Think back over 20 years ago to Sept. 8, 2004. That’s when NASA’s Genesis sample return
The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S. and in the fields of Texas… https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2025-01-19/solar-farms-are-booming-in-the-us-and-putting-thousands-of-hungry-sheep-to-work
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From pv magazine 12/24-01/25 Back in the early 2000s, when solar was first taking off in Europe, Irishman Justin Brown and his business partners began investing in small-scale facilities in Germany. Brown said they took a few years there to learn all facets of the market and how solar might benefit Ireland in time to
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