Mapping a path to tandem commercialization
Chris Case, chief technology officer for Oxford PV, recently spoke with pv magazine about the company’s new 28.6%-efficient, commercial-sized, tandem solar cell, its US subsidiary, and plans for the...
View ArticlePlanning a Hamba-lution
As the global North ponders e-mobility dilemmas such as how to source sufficient materials to meet electric car demand, fresh evidence has emerged of how solar can decarbonize transport and farming in...
View ArticleIn Conversation: ‘Reliable solar has a lot to offer’
With a career built on going places few humans would dare – including the North Pole and South Pole and the seven highest mountain peaks – adventurer Sibusiso Vilane understands how important power can...
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In Conversation: 100% solar offgrid, 100% on wheels
Jason and Kara are Canadian overlanders from the “Everlanders” channel on YouTube. Overlanding is self-reliant travel on the road, driving to remote places across international borders. pv magazine...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Staying cool in Kenya
Germany’s Solar Cooling Engineering GmbH (SCE) has developed a new solar-powered cooling technology based on a climate-friendly refrigerant. Through its PV Cool Kenya project, it has rolled out the...
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In Conversation: ‘It powers everything’
The promise of an unencumbered life drew retiree John Robert away from landlocked Minneapolis, Minnesota, and to a life aboard his sailboat. While docked for a period of repair and renovation, pv...
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In Conversation: Swedish steel’s green hydrogen play
Cutting emissions and making use of renewable power represent a big departure from the way things have long been done in heavy industries such as steel manufacturing. In Sweden, the Hybrit initiative...
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In Conversation: Power to the polymers
The start of July 2023 saw the establishment in Germany of the Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications (HIPOLE), a collaboration between Friedrich Schiller University Jena and...
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In Conversation: Solar e-commerce takes off
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes, to see the true state of play. Agata Krawiec-Rokita feels the solar sector lacks transparency, making sales processes overly complex amid both...
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In Conversation: A sea of modules floats all boats
Developers have deployed vast amounts of solar capacity in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in recent years. Winning community approval for large-scale solar has been a challenge in some places but...
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In Conversation: Beyond solar
As solar and renewable energy grow, our industry finds itself coming more frequently into contact with people from radically different industries and walks of life. Occasionally these crossovers have...
View ArticleHopes washed away
The Ukrainian solar industry had hoped that a long-anticipated counter-offensive against the Russians would help reclaim PV assets on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River. The brutal reality is that...
View Article‘Please open your wallets’
Donations of cash and solar equipment have thrown a lifeline to schools, hospitals, and communities in Ukraine but the country needs much more, including long-term backing for the recovery of its...
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Records fall, market stalls
The solar industry sat up and took notice when Portugal held two record-breaking national PV auctions in 2019 and 2020, setting new global low prices for solar energy. However, sluggish progress on...
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Curtailment crisis in Cyprus
The typical volume of excess clean power wasted daily on the island has rocketed since last year. With a fossil fuel industry veteran heading the energy department after February’s presidential...
View ArticleGreek grid lags the solar boom
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who secured a parliamentary majority in June, must prioritize the implementation of the energy storage tenders that the government promised back in...
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Nigeria’s PV potential
Everoze Partner Abdul Sotayo highlights some of the issues that continue to hold back progress on clean energy in Nigeria, where energy poverty remains a problem, despite the nation’s vast solar...
View ArticleChaotic leadership leaves South Africans in the dark
Extensive load-shedding, lack of grid capacity, failing coal-fired power stations, lack of progress in clean power procurement, and even vandalism have prompted various South African government...
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In pictures: The smarter E Europe 2023
The smarter E Europe trade show returned to Munich in June for its biggest edition ever, with 106,000 attendees over three days. pv magazine was at the show, running a liveblog, recording video...
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Building to last in the Global South
Paul Wormser, VP for technology at Clean Energy Associates (CEA), says PV initiatives should be designed to last, as several well-meaning off-grid solar projects for the developing world have...
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