Solar & Storage Live Saudi Arabia Market Report 2025
This report explores Saudi Arabia’s fast-evolving solar and storage market, charting its role in achieving Vision 2030 renewable targets. Inside, readers will find a clear market overview, including capacity goals, investment trends, and policy drivers shaping solar...
Switzerland Solar Market Report 2025
Switzerland’s solar energy sector has experienced exponential growth, with capacity leaping from 0.1 GW in 2010 to 6.8 GW in 2024. This report unpacks the government policies, technological advancements, and market dynamics driving this success, while also addressing...
Spain Solar Market Report 2025
Spain’s solar energy sector has surged to 22.45 GW of capacity by early 2023, with ground-mounted solar farms driving 77% of new installations. This report delves into the policies, technological advances, and market forces shaping Spain’s rise as Europe’s...
France Solar Market Report 2025
France is emerging as a European solar powerhouse, with capacity surging to 17.1 GW in 2022 and a goal of 100 GW by 2050. This report explores the country’s innovative policies, groundbreaking technologies like floating solar farms, and the key players propelling the...
Italy Solar Market Report 2025
Italy’s solar market has grown from 4,000 MW in 2005 to over 26 GW in 2023, driven by strong policies and cutting-edge technologies like bifacial panels and agrivoltaics. With ambitious goals of 52 GW by 2030 and 74.6% renewable electricity by 2050, the report...
UK Energy Week: Think tank says global installed solar capacity set to soar
A new report by Ember, a UK-based independent climate and energy think tank, projects that global solar capacity will reach 593GW by the end of 2024. If these forecasts are accurate, it would mark a 29% increase in capacity compared to the previous year, even after a...
Solar stocks soar after USA election debate
Solar and clean energy stocks experienced a significant uptick on Wednesday after the first debate ahead of the USA’s upcoming November election. The Invesco Solar ETF (TAN) rose by 6%, while the iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN) climbed by more than 3%. Despite...
Switzerland Energy Week: Energy Policy Review one year on
In September 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report on Switzerland’s energy policies – as it does for all its member countries. Switzerland's low-emissions electricity system positions the country favourably to achieve its climate goals for 2030...
Switzerland Energy Week: The challenge of energy storage
A study titled Future Swiss Energy Economy: The Challenge of Storing Renewable Energy, published in the journal Frontiers in Energy Research, in part analyses how Switzerland could use solar power as part of its renewable energy transformation through various storage...
Switzerland Energy Week: The Swiss surge in PV energy
Switzerland is experiencing a significant surge in solar PV energy, with solar power expected to cover more than 10% of the country’s total electricity demand for the first time in 2024. This marks a milestone, as solar energy will surpass the output of the Beznau...
Research shows solar panels at risk from hailstorms
Chaucer, a specialist insurance group, has released a new report showing that the number of recorded hailstorms has more than doubled over the last year. These reached 11,808 in the 12 months leading up to the end of June, which could cause damage to solar panels....
Europe and US falling behind on climate targets
A recent McKinsey & Company study reveals that Europe and the United States lag behind their decarbonisation objectives. This shortfall is primarily due to a significant discrepancy between the volume of targeted projects and the number progressing to final...
Italy Adds 3.34 GW of Solar PV in First Half of 2024
Italy installed approximately 3.34 GW of new PV capacity in the first six months of 2024, according to a new report by the Italian PV association Italia Solare. During the same period in 2023, the country deployed around 2.3 GW of solar power. Over the full year of...
Solar and wind surpass coal in China for first time
Solar and wind energy in China surpassed coal in capacity for the first time as of June this year, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA). Rystad Energy’s forecast predicts that by 2026, solar power alone will exceed coal as China’s primary energy...
IEA: Floating PV systems have a slightly larger carbon footprint
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO), a Dutch independent research organisation, has released its analysis of floating PV systems. The research was conducted on behalf of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Photovoltaic...
EU solar and wind overtake fossil fuels for the first time
According to a report released on Tuesday by Ember, an independent energy thinktank, the EU’s solar and wind farms generated more electricity than fossil fuels from January – June 2024. The think tank says that this is the first time such gains have been achieved in a...
Swiss universities launch database for alpine solar PV plants
Four universities in Switzerland have collected and analysed data from the country’s Alpine power plants, some of which are in the planning stages and some are already in operation. The universities involved have published the alpine-pv.ch database: Bern University of...
Govt data shows UK solar capacity hit 16.9GW in June
The UK government has shared new data that indicates that, as of the end of June 2024, the UK reached a solar capacity of 16.9GW. The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) reported an 8.5% increase (1.3 GW) in solar capacity over the previous year,...
EEB says important solar expansion won’t impact food production
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) has reported that there is ample land available in Europe to expand solar and wind energy without affecting food production or natural habitats. The report titled "Land for Renewables: Briefing on spatial requirements for a...
UK to see “golden era” for domestic solar industry, says MCS data
New data from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) shows that the adoption of solar panels, battery storage systems, and home heat pumps are on the rise in the UK. MCS’ latest data shows that 2024 has been a record-breaking year for solar and storage...
