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“Let`s Flex. Welcome to the Solar Flex Era“: This is the motto of this year's SolarPower Summit 2025, which is taking place in Brussels on 26 and 27 March. The 40th anniversary of the organizer, SolarPower Europe, will also be celebrated.

One award, five categories, 15 winners and an abundance of innovative and intelligent ideas, products, services and projects: The next The smarter E AWARD is already on the horizon. Companies can submit their applications for the coveted award starting November 1, 2024. The application period ends on January 31, 2025.

The 1st Intersolar Summit Africa 2025 is set to transform the renewable energy landscape from March 12–13, 2025, Nairobi/Kenya. Bringing together 250 key stakeholders from across the solar, energy storage, and finance sectors, this flagship event will provide promising opportunities for networking, knowledge exchange, and collaboration.

Poland will reach an installed photovoltaic capacity of 20 gigawatts by the end of this year. Thanks to additional government subsidies for small private PV systems and high electricity prices of over 30 eurocents per kilowatt hour for companies, investments in own electricity generation in both areas will become attractive in 2025.

The European renewable energy market in 2024 has seen both massive growth phases as well as uncertainties around legislation and infrastructure readiness in several European markets. Wolf Dietrich – Senior Director Development, UK & Europe of Econergy summarizes key challenges and provides an outlook on growth trends and success factors for 2025.

SolarPower Europe unveiled its landmark ‘Sustainable Solar: Environmental, Social, and Governance Actions Along the Value Chain’ report, detailing how the solar sector is addressing key sustainability challenges across all stages of its lifecycle.

The Swedish Solar Energy Association (Svensk Solenergi) has launched a guideline to emergency operation in the event of a power outage for household with solar panels. It was presented during the National Conference on Public Health and Defense.

As part of the global strategy of the logistics company DHL, all new buildings must be climate-neutral by 2030, with the goal of achieving complete climate neutrality by 2050. The logistics company is relying heavily on photovoltaics to achieve this, including in Finland.

No other electricity generation technology has expanded as quickly as photovoltaics in the past year. It is now stronger than coal power. Adding green power plants also saves a lot of money on fossil fuel imports.

The Republic of Moldova is taking major steps to encourage investment in renewable energies, expand international partnerships and achieve climate targets. Photovoltaics play an important role in this. The first tenders were recently launched.

The Enex Expo has served as a key meeting point for companies and experts in the renewable energy sector for many years. The event showcases cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive the growth and development of the sector. The 27th edition of the fair will take place on February 18th and 19th, 2025, at the Targi Kielce Exhibition Centre.

After four years of soaring growth, the EU solar sector has hit its first deployment slowdown of the 2020s, dropping from 53% growth in 2023 to 4% in 2024. This represents a 92% slowdown of solar growth.

In the US, there are plenty of water reservoirs available to be utilised for PV. As a first step, researchers have calculated the technically possible potential.

A tsunami of cheap Chinese solar panels flooding Europe, an increasing taste for rooftop solar and a boom for small, medium and large-scale battery storage. These are the three strongest trends in solar energy for 2025, as seen by Midsummer Executive VP Sven Lindström.

Alessandra Astolfi, Exhibition Director of renewable tradefair KEY 2025 in Rimini/Italy, on its importance at a time just before the relaunch of renewable energy tenders in  the country.

Montenegro has a high solar potential and is taking promising steps to use more solar PV, as Ivana Vojinović, director of the Center for Climate Change, Natural Resources and Energy at the University of Donja Gorica, explains. But challenges remain.

After ten years in the market the Chinese supplier of inverters is still holding the ground. The business is volatile, but that is no news in PV. The sales director for Eastern Europe talks about chances and pitfalls in turbulent times in the polish market.

Corab might be best known as a PV-component wholesaler based in Poland. The roots of the company lie in the production of mounting systems. Currently, the company is capable of an output of over four Gigawatt per year. One of the newest developments in mounting system techniques from Corab are agri-pv-systems. We talked about the role of this new development with Barbara Michalowska, Agri-PV Manager at CORAB S.A.

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) officially entered into force. The  implementation of the new EU Rooftop Solar Standardcould drive the installation of 150 to 200 GW of additional rooftop solar capacity in the EU between 2026 and 2030 according to SolarPower Europe.

More and more companies are using their building roofs to generate solar power. This week, we will be presenting some particularly interesting examples in our weekly focus topic about commercial and industrial (C&I) PV rooftops. Don't miss our webinar on this topic on 12 February either.

The Swiss energy provider is building a huge solar park near Madrid to cover the immense energy consumption of artificial intelligence. This will be specially adapted to supply data centres.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in many fields. What role can AI play in the energy transition and in renewable energy systems? Bradley Mundt, CEO & founder of the green energy start-up PLAN-B NET ZERO, sheds light on this question.

How can PV wholesalers survive and even grow in turbulent times like these? Andreas Zyber, managing director of Quantumsolarpv GmbH, the German branch of a Polish PV wholesaler, reveals the secret of success.

The Chinese government has reduced a tax break for solar panels by 4 percent. It may be a first sign that solar panel prices will rise again in the new year. Especially now that it seems likely that the Chinese government will also abolish the remaining 9 percent tax benefit in the first half of 2025, says Gerard Scheper, CEO of European Solar. "This finally seems to be the end of the declining price curve of solar panels and making it less interesting to postpone the purchase any longer."

In 2024, the solar revolution is more than an environmental imperative. It is fueling job opportunities in the massive global energy transition. Yet skilled workforce is a key challenge, Saba Kalam, Programme Specialist at International Solar Alliance (ISA), Paul Buttin, French Secondee to ISA, and Berthold Breid, CEO of RENAC state.