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The global floating solar (FPV) market will surpass 6GW by 2031, with China, India and Southeast Asia set to deploy the lion’s share.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores the challenges and opportunities for the region’s burgeoning green hydrogen sector.

Welcome back to our coverage from SNEC in Shanghai, the world's biggest solar PV industry trade event.

Welcome to PV Tech's live coverage from SNEC PV Power Expo 2023: Day One, to be updated throughout the day.

While bifacial modules promise advantages in power production, they can create complex performance monitoring challenges. That will need to be resolved if project production uncertainties are expected to remain at levels and expectations currently set with the deployment of mono-facial modules, write Ajay Singh and Derek Jones of Campbell Scientific Inc.

The contract for the world’s first offshore floating solar farm has been awarded to offshore specialist Oceans of Energy for a project in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands.

Building on the successes of floating PV projects installed on lakes and dams globally, offshore installations are an emerging opportunity for developers, potentially when co-located with wind farms. George Heynes explores how the industry can move beyond pilot projects to large-scale, commercially viable installations, detailing the challenges and opportunities ahead.

The projects consist of a 90MW floating solar project in Madhya Pradesh and a 100MW utility-scale solar PV project to be built in Gujarat

The China Energy Engineering Corporation has reportedly proposed to build a 1GW floating solar installation in Zimbabwe, at the Kariba Dam on the Zambizi river.

Italian renewable energy group Enel Green Power has started construction of a 170MW agrivoltaics solar PV plant in Italy.