QUARTERLY EDITION: April 2025

108 pages

Highlights in this edition include:

• More than modules
  The solar backlash pushing developers to raise their game
• Rising module prices and a rush to complete projects
  Recent major market reforms in China bring an end to the feed-in tariff era
• Inverted fortunes
  Inverters are crucial in everything from cybersecurity to home energy management. So why are producers struggling?
• PV underperformance
  A modern solution to a data-driven problem
• Virtual power plants
  New business models to fund off-grid PV
• BESS revenue optimisiation
  Unlocking Europe’s key markets

QUARTERLY EDITION: December 2024

92 pages

Highlights in this edition include:

• Hope and hype
  The route to market for perovskite PV
• Tackling uncertainty in energy yield forecasts
  Why the PV forecasting industry needs to raise its game
• Towards a new desert testing standard for PV modules
  Ensuring module durability in desert environments
• How US trade measures are reshaping solar supply chains
  How will a second presidential term for Donald Trump impact the US PV supply chain?
• Fresh thinking needed to close off-grid solar’s funding gap
  New business models to fund off-grid PV
• Cutthroat competition: the race to the top of the BESS supply chain
  Strategies for market dominance in a fiercely competitive industry

QUARTERLY EDITION: September 2024

100 pages

Highlights in this edition include:

• Unshackling the US grid
  Interconnection reforms for the clean energy transition
• Uncertainty builds ahead of more AD/CVD tariffs
  The latest chapter in the US tariff saga looms
• New UK government sets course for 2030 decarbonisation goal
  Solar and storage take centre stage in Labour’s clean energy plans
• Fresh hope for Europe’s PV manufacturers
  Implementing the EU’s Net-Zero Industries Act
• Navigating defects in next-generation PV modules
  Degradation in TOPCon and HJT modules
• Beyond the spark: Insuring battery storage
  KWH Analytics on managing thermal runaway risks

European PV in Focus A special report on a pivotal year for Europe’s solar sector

Engineering firm Benny Energia provides us exclusive insights into a 200MW/800MWh project they developed in Italy, where grid-scale deployments are set to soar over the next few years.

Andy Colthorpe takes soundings from key energy storage market players on their forecasts for the industry in 2024, following a year of significant progress in 2023.

Two years of volatility in the lithium-ion battery storage industry have seen prices tumble and a host of supply-chain complexities come to the fore. As Swetha Sundaram of RWE Clean Energy writes, the winners in this fast-changing market will be those who are best prepared.

Despite geopolitical unrest, the global energy storage system market doubled in 2023 by gigawatt-hours installed. Dan Shreve of Clean Energy Associates looks at the pricing dynamics helping propel storage to ever greater heights.

Testing times
Inside the PV industry’s quality challenge

Australia runs a great risk of failing to meet its ambitious but achievable renewable energy goals, writes Stephanie Bashir, CEO of Nexa Advisory, who explains why utility-scale energy storage is among the crucial tools in the country’s energy transition toolkit