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How long will photovoltaic last in 2023? 2023-03-07

When clean energy consumption accounts for more than 80% of future energy consumption, solar energy, wind energy, water energy, nuclear energy, hydrogen energy and biomass energy will play an important role. But which energy source will be the backbone? The answer is undoubtedly solar energy. Solar energy is everywhere and has huge total amount. People can obtain this zero-emissio...

How to reduce the risk of photovoltaic power station encountering strong wind? 2023-03-02

Recently, many photovoltaic power plants have been hit by strong winds. Earlier on February 1, a distributed photovoltaic power station in Muyang County, Suqian, Jiangsu was knocked down by a strong wind, and the overall photovoltaic power station components, brackets and other systems were severely damaged. According to the understanding of photovoltaics, before and after the Spring Festival this...

Nigeria to expand funding for solar resources 2023-02-16

The electric generation, transmission, and distribution in Nigeria don’t meet the needs of residential and industrial consumers. In 2020, around 55 percent of Nigerian people had access to electricity. 80% of power generation in Nigeria comes from gas, and most of the rest comes from oil. Regarding electric production, natural gas is the main source. Nigeria is now taking more and more bene...

Netherlands to add 3.3 GW of solar this year 2023-02-08

According to data from the state-run agency RVO, the installed solar capacity in the Netherlands will reach 17.6 GW by the end of the year, which can meet at least 12% of the country's electricity demand. The Netherlands is on track to add another 3.3 GW of new PV capacity in 2022, enough to bring the total installed solar capacity to 17.6 GW. Newly released figures from the Dutch state-run RVO Ne...

Germany plans to impose a 90% windfall profit tax on photovoltaic power generation and other companies 2022-11-29

Recently, the German government has drawn up a plan to levy a windfall profit tax of 90% on the profits of some clean energy power generation companies such as photovoltaics, offshore wind farms, and nuclear power to fund its consumer assistance program. Windfall profits tax, also known as "special income tax", is a tax on unreasonably high profits obtained by the industry. In the fi...

Austria may add 1.2 GW of new solar in 2022 2022-11-22

Austria could become a gigawatt market for the first time in 2022. Its cumulative solar capacity is potentially set to hit 4 GW, up from 2.78 GW at the end of 2021. The country is expected to install more than 1 GW of solar every year until 2030. Austria might install 1.2 GW of additional solar in 2022, according to the Austrian PV Technology Platform (TPPV). If the prediction pans out, the countr...

Portugal's first photovoltaic community benefits significantly！ 2022-10-24

Portugal's first Renewable Energy Community (REC) was completed in August 2021 in Mirandado Douro, a rural village in the north of the country. A year into operation, industry media interviewed Cleanwatts, the renewable energy developer building the project, to assess the current state of its operations. With an installed capacity of 73.3kW, this PV community saved €31,500 in electricity bills wit...

Ukraine plans to build 1 million solar roofs by 2030 2022-10-18

Due to the impact of the war, the development of the solar energy industry in Ukraine is currently limited. This has already resulted in more than 1GW of lost capacity, and PV development has been suspended in some regions. Despite the current stagnation, some trade bodies have called for Ukraine's subsequent economic recovery to be dominated by renewable energy, with a goal of reaching 50%...