If Portugal wants to achieve its target of 9GW of installed capacity ahead of schedule by 2026 rather than by the end of the century, it will need to address one of the main obstacles it currently faces: licensing issues.     At this week's European Large Solar Conference, team members discussed the future of the Portuguese solar market, which has undergone some regulatory improvements, including less stringent environmental assessments for projects under 100 hectares to help accelerate the deployment of solar photovoltaic, but more work needs to be done.     "We need faster and smoother licensing," said Pedro Pereira, General Manager of Eurowind Energy in Southern Europe. Pedro Amaral Jorge, CEO of the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association (APREN), said that in 2018, Portugal had only 5 GW of application capacity waiting for licensing. By the end of 2020, this number has sharply increased to 250GW.     In addition, Amaral Jorge stated that Portugal's National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), released in 2019, may revise its goal to increase the installed capacity of solar photovoltaic from the current 9 GW to 15-20 GW by 2030.     Jo ã o Amaral, Chief Technology Officer and Country Manager for Portugal at Voltalia, added that as the demand for newer renewable energy applications increases, the government needs to provide licenses for these new projects and withdraw capacity projects that have not yet been implemented.     At the end of 2022, the installed capacity of solar photovoltaic in Portugal was 2.6GW, with an increase of 446MW in large public projects and 385MW in small and medium-sized projects in the same year alone. As shown in the figure below, by the end of July, Portugal had exceeded the full year figure for 2021. Miguel Lobo, Portugal's national head of Lightsource BP, said that so far, Portugal needs to double its installation rate to achieve the target of 9GW of solar photovoltaic installed capacity by 2026. This plan is meaningful for a country with the best solar radiation in Europe. Compared to other European markets, Portugal's production capacity has increased by 50%.     Most panel members believe that licensing is one of the main issues currently facing the Portuguese market, while insufficient grid capacity is another major bottleneck for Portugal to achieve ambitious renewable energy growth by 2030.     Renato Madureira, Country Manager of FF Ventures Portugal, said, "The main problem we are facing is a lack of capacity, and we do not have the capacity to connect to the grid." This issue not only affects newer projects, but also projects signed in previous tenders.     For old projects that are already waiting to be connected to the grid, in order for Portugal to achieve its goal of new renewable energy capacity by the end of this century, it is necessary to consolidate the grid and do more work.     Amaral add...

A solar system the size of two football pitches on Bella Center's roof will in future cover a third of Bella Center's electricity consumption. The 550W solar panel will be the largest of its kind in Zealand. Zealand's largest roof-integrated solar system now sees the light of day on top of the Bella Center in Copenhagen. When all solar cells are connected, the on grid solar system has a capacity of 2.79 MW. This means that the solar cells can produce green energy equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 537 households with two adults and two children. The solar cells are part of the sustainability strategy of Bellagroup, which owns Bella Center, and which has long worked with initiatives that can reduce energy consumption in the group's hotels and venues. Earlier this year, the new Bella Arena received certification for being sustainable construction in international gold class. Now you take the next step and start producing the energy yourself. "It is quite obvious to utilize the many flat roofs in the big cities to create green energy, and there are not many people who have as large a roof area as we do. We work purposefully with sustainability and responsibility across all our hotels and venues as part of our "responsible hospitality" strategy. We are therefore very excited that we can now utilize the roof's potential to generate renewable energy for the Bella Center and AC Hotel Bella Sky," says Christian Folden Lund, CEO of Bellagroup. Leading the way in the development of responsible hospitality The Bella Center is already one of Europe's most ambitious convention centers when it comes to integrating climate and environmental considerations and social sustainability into production. With the solar cells, Bella Center takes another step in the green direction with its own production of green electricity corresponding to just over a third of the center's electricity consumption in 2021. "The climate footprint is an important parameter when our customers have to choose where their large international conferences will take place. Copenhagen is already known as a green choice, and we would like to expand that position. As Northern Europe's largest conference venue, we would like to be at the forefront of the development of future responsible hospitality. We are taking a huge step with the new solar cell system, but we are constantly looking at how we can keep improving," says Christian Folden Lund. Bellagroup is also replacing 5,500 light sources at AC Hotel Bella Sky with LED lighting in 2023. Together with the establishment of the new solar cell system, it reduces Bellagroup's Co2 emissions by more than 400 tonnes annually. Most ambitious solar project in Zealand It is the company NRGreen that is establishing the new solar cell system on the roof of the Bella Center. It will cover an area of 16,000 m2, which is comparable to two large football pitches. And nothing like it has been seen in Zealand. "It is the largest and most am...

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The distributed photovoltaic construction on the roof of the hospital in Hefei City, Anhui Province, China has been completed, with a total capacity of 169.29KW. The sunrover 550W solar panel is used to generate power for the entire hospital's operating load.

China’s PV industry’s production value last year reached RMB1.4 trillion (US$203.5 billion), according to a report published by China’s ministry of industry and information technology. The report Operation of the PV Manufacturing Industry in China in 2022 stated that the output in all links of China’s PV industry chain achieved a record high, where polysilicon, silicon wafers, cells and solar panels reached 827,000 tons, 357GW, 318GW and 288.7GW, respectively, equivalent to a year-on-year growth of more than 55%. According to Bohua Wang, honorary president of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, there were 87.41GW of newly installed capacity in China last year, including distributed installation capacity of 51.11GW, an increase of 74%. New centralised installments reached 36.3GW, an increase of 41.8%. Wang added that China’s PV export reached US$51.2 billion, the first time exceeding US$50 billion. Of this amount, solar modules accounted for US$42.36 billion, silicon wafers US$5.07 billion and cells US$3.82 billion. Looking forward, the China Photovoltaic Association added that new PV installations would reach 280-330GW globally, while about 95GW-120GW will come from China.

In 2022, Germany added 7.18GW of solar energy system, 2.14GW of onshore wind and 342MW of offshore wind. Net additions were stronger than in 2021, but still far below the pace needed to meet the 2030 renewable energy targets. According to data released by the Federal Network Agency, by the end of 2022, Germany will have 66.49GW of solar system capacity in operation. In order to achieve the target of 215GW in 2030, Germany needs to install 1.54GW per month on average. More than half of the new capacity, around 4.4GW, came from rooftop projects and 746.7MW from unsubsidized ground-mounted solar panels. Bavaria was once again the leader in new solar capacity, adding 2.09GW for all of 2022, bringing its total to 18.3GW at the end of the year. The North Rhine-Westphalia state came second with 899.2MW of net installed capacity, followed by Brandenburg with 794.1MW. In terms of onshore wind power, Germany's operating capacity by the end of the year was 58.2GW, and December witnessed the highest monthly growth rate of 309MW in the year. Despite an acceleration by the end of 2022, the rate of expansion would have to increase to an average of 591MW per month, so that by the end of the decade Germany's onshore wind turbines would reach 115GW. In terms of offshore wind power, as many as 38 offshore wind turbines (totaling 342MW) were integrated into the German grid last year, bringing Germany's wind power capacity in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to 8.12GW.

The 1.8MW roof and photovoltaic carport project in Hefei, Anhui Province, China was completed. The overall project uses Trina 455W solar panel,the inverter uses Growatt, Costa, and Huawei on grid inverters, which is divided into 13 roof photovoltaic and carport photovoltaic projects. The overall project adopts the on grid system, which generates about 50 million kWh per year and saves about 18.02 million tons of coal.  

The ground photovoltaic carport project in Hefei, China will be completed in December 2022. The capacity of the project is 863.28KW, all using sunrover 545w bifacial solar panels, a total of 1584pcs, on grid solar system.