UK energy secretary to visit China in early 2025
The planned visit comes as the Labour government looks to renew relations with China.
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The paradox of Italy’s industrial strategy
For all the talk of revitalizing and greening Europe, company owners in Italy are being allowed to relocate their businesses abroad rather than modernize and adjust at home.
UK energy policy: 20 people to lobby at Conservative conference
LONDON — The Conservative Party “got trounced in the polls,” ex-Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho admitted earlier this month. After 14 years controlling Westminster’s levers of power, voters dumped the Tories unceremoniously from office overnight in July. And yet — the party is already regrouping, jumping on energy bills and cost-of-living as one basis for a […]
Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat
With storms becoming more frequent due to the climate crisis, insurers are forcing operators to respondOne of the least considered hazards of climate change is the increasing frequency of hailstorms and the size and the impact of the pieces of ice they…
Key solar panel producer to stay in Germany as US plans fall apart
Germany’s biggest solar panel producer, Meyer Burger, will not close down its plant and move to the US, the company announced on Monday (26 August).
Germans fight climate change on their balconies in solar panel boom
The price of electricity in Germany has shot up since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, leaving residents to source cheaper alternatives.
Biden’s biggest challenge: How do you even spend $1.6 trillion?
Congress gave Biden a historic sum to green the economy, revive manufacturing and fix crumbling infrastructure. But most of it is unspent.
Paris to everyone: Buy French solar panels, forget all competitors
Bruno Le Maire’s urgings may run afoul of EU rules.
EU launches subsidy probe into Chinese solar PV firms
The European Union has launched a probe into whether subsidies allowed Chinese firms to submit unfair bids for the construction of a Romanian solar panel park, in the second application of a new trade protection law in one week.
Germany’s last major solar module producer to close in March
Swiss solar company Meyer Burger will close its Freiberg plant to focus on its US production sites, after years of posting losses, reducing the overall EU solar panel production capacity by about 10%.
Solar PV industry caught up in China forced-labour controversy
Political momentum is swaying in favour of European solar panel manufacturers, as work progresses on a new EU law banning forced labour practices that would effectively block Chinese imports.
East German state premier blames US for solar industry malaise
Saxony prime minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU/EPP) blamed the USA’s ‘protectionism’ against China for the current malaise of European solar manufacturers, arguing that it proves the necessity of an independent trade policy approach towards China.