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The French manufacturer has strengthened its financing plan to more than €220 million following the arrival of two new investors. The company is advancing its TOPCon giant project in Hambach, northeastern France. The company says it has completed its industrial model and secured a substantial customer portfolio. November 18, 2025 Gwénaëlle Deboutte By pv magazine France French PV module manufacturer HoloSolis has announced that Cales Technologies and Forming AG are now two new investors in its project to build a 5 GW cell and module production facility in Hambach, near Sarreguemines, in northwestern France. Cales Technology is a French family…
Energy consultancy Cornwall Insight predicts that the next energy price cap will fall compared to the current period.The Default Tariff Cap has been set by the UK energy regulator Ofgem as the maximum unit rate and standing charge that customers can be charged for their energy consumption. The latest forecast from Cornwall Insight predicts the limit will fall to £1,733 per year for a typical dual-fuel household by the first quarter of 2026.This is a decrease of £22, or 1%, from the current cap, which is set at £1,755 per year for the fourth quarter of 2025. Despite this drop,…
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says solar is the only renewable energy technology where current investment levels approach the annual average needed until 2030 to align with the 1.5C trajectory. November 18, 2025 Patrick Jowett According to IRENA’s, investments in solar energy technologies will reach a record $554 billion by 2024 Global energy transition financing landscape 2025. The figure, which corresponds to IRENA’s projections compared to August last year is a 49% increase over the average investment level in 2023 and 2023. It positions solar energy as the dominant renewable energy source in terms of investments, accounting for 69%…
The Chinese manufacturer said its new T5 Pro modules have high power density and a low current and low resistance profile. The series has a power range of 480 W to 760 W and a power conversion efficiency of up to 25.17%. November 18, 2025 Vincent Shaw TCL Zhonghuan has launched its T5 Pro series of high-efficiency solar modules in Beijing, describing the line as the company’s new N-type TOPCon flagship and a “strategic move toward higher-value, application-driven differentiation amid increasing competition in the PV supply chain.” The T5 Pro range includes three power classes: 760W for utility-scale installations, 680W…
Norsk Hydro will invest approximately $110 million after taxes in the construction of the Illvatn pumped hydroelectric power station in western Norway. November 18, 2025 Tristan Rayner Image: Bosko Janusevic Hydro By ESS news Norsk Hydro has approved the construction of the Illvatn pumped storage project in Luster, Western Norway, the company’s largest hydropower development in more than 20 years, which will add 107 GWh of annual storage. The system will add approximately 107 GWh of annual energy production and increase flexibility in Hydro’s Fortun energy operations. Hydro has not provided figures on the capacity in kW or MW. The…
A new industrial partnership powered by defense-related technology transfer says Colombia could become a strategic hub for the production of lightweight copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). November 18, 2025 Luis Ini By pv magazine LatAm Midsummer is building the factory in collaboration with the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab. The installation will have an initial annual capacity of 15 MW. Following the announcement by the Colombian government last week of the country’s first national company dedicated to the production of solar panels, established with the technical and financial cooperation of the Swedish government, Swedish solar manufacturer Midsummer said it…
Door Brad Kramer 17 november 2025 In de editie van vandaag van Projecten wekelijkskijken we naar een selectie van grootschalige zonne-energieprojecten, evenals naar overnames die een impact hebben op de markt. Ten eerste is er de samenwerking tussen Titan Energy en Greenskies Clean Focus om zonne-energie op het dak te brengen naar de Soundview Family YMCA in Connecticut. Zelestra heeft een Amerikaanse tax equity-transactie afgerond voor het 81 MW Jasper County Solar-project in Indiana. Fullmark Energy heeft het 65 MW San Jacinto Energy Storage-project in Californië voltooid. Dispatch Energy heeft Green Lantern Solar en zijn gedistribueerde opwekkingsvoetafdruk (DG) in negen…
On November 14, more than fifty Republicans in the House of Representatives in the conservative caucus sent a letter to the Commerce Department. Howard Lutnick asks the department to stop importing Chinese solar inverters. Republicans expressed concern about the situation in May 2025 Reuters report that has found fraudulent communications equipment in some Chinese solar inverters that is not listed in the product documents. “The integration of critical grid technologies, such as large-scale solar and battery inverters, from foreign entities of concern poses unacceptable risks to national security, the economy and the supply chain,” the letter said. The new Foreign…
Waaree Energies has started its 1.5 GW solar panel production facility in the Indian state of Gujarat. This follows the commissioning of the 2.1 GW facility in Chikli. November 17, 2025 Uma Gupta Image: Waaree Energies, pv magazine By pv magazine India Waaree Energies has started its 1.5 GW solar panel manufacturing facility in Samakhiali-Kutch, India. The plant, operated by subsidiary Sangam Solar One, includes two production lines with an annual capacity of 750 MW each. The launch follows the commissioning of Waaree’s Chikli plant in Navsari district, India, where two solar panel lines with an annual capacity of 1,050…
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the few senior US political leaders to attend this year’s UN climate summit, told AFP on Friday that President Donald Trump’s America is “intentionally” losing the race against China in clean technology. The 70-year-old lawmaker said he came to Belem, Brazil, to underscore that Trump’s aggressive pro-fossil fuel policies “do not represent the American people” — and that the United States is losing huge economic opportunities. “Right now we are deliberately losing our competition in solar energy, wind energy, battery storage, electric vehicles and all the supporting technologies that go with them,” he said in…