Bifacial’s impact, PPA maturation and green hydrogen: Five takeaways from SFIE 2021
A project in the Netherlands using Jolywood’s bifacial TOPCon modules, completed in 2019.
Europe’s solar financing market is evolving at rapid speed, driven by changing dynamics and aided by technological advancements at the asset level. Here
PV Tech re-caps the five most significant takeaways from the conference’s opening days.
Standardised O&M contracts may not be suitable in the bifacial era
Projects using bifacial panels continue to grow in prominence, and now most developers will at least run projections on adding bifaciality to projects. Both Dupont and module manufacturer JinkoSolar, speaking during the conference, referenced significant growth in this area.
Renewables groups ‘cannot walk away’ from green hydrogen potential Email
Powering green hydrogen production could become a valuable revenue stream for solar asset managers in Europe as subsidy-free systems become mainstream, according to industry leaders.
João Cunha, chief operating officer and deputy CEO of Smartenergy Renewables AG, told panellists during today’s
PV Tech publisher Solar Media, that green hydrogen will play an important role in the advancement of the renewables sector as a whole, and extracting more value from solar parks with low energy costs.
“The market will come to a point where all players in renewables cannot walk away from this new opportunity”, he told attendees of the Solar Finance and Investment Europe conference this week, adding that falling energy prices in the solar market will increase demand for alternative revenue streams, which could include using solar to create more expensive green hydrogen.
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