Our view on the latest developments in PV.
PV Magazine interviewed Apricum Senior Advisor Moritz Sticher to support their feature on the Vietnamese government’s plan to open their renewable energy markets to bilateral power purchase agreements (PPAs).
PV Tech Magazine spoke to Florian Haacke, Apricum partner and head of Apricum’s materials business, about Europe’s need to build its own large-scale, vertically integrated solar manufacturing base.
The 30 GWp of solar PV capacity added in Europe in 2021 marks a record for PV additions to European energy generation. This number sets a European base line while the continent is facing increasingly uncertain and costly fossil energy supplies, lately spurred by the war against Ukraine.
With high levels of uncertainty in the downstream sector driven by rising PV module costs, we find out more about PV price projections and trends for next year in this interview with Florian Haacke, partner and head of Apricum’s materials and components practice...
While solar has experienced a bumpy ride over the last decade, we now stand at the beginning of a new dawn in Europe for solar PV. A sense of urgency to tackle climate change is finally pervading among corporates as well as individuals with governments beginning to...
This article explores the current state of floating solar PV, briefly highlighting several leading markets, and discussing benefits and advantages in detail alongside common applications and business model considerations. The outlook for FPV is positive and is set to...
Substantial flows of investment into renewables has brought about significant reductions in the cost of delivered energy, while simultaneously increasing the penetration of renewables in most markets. These developments herald the rise of Renewables 2.0, a...
As the deployment of renewable energy continues to expand around the world driven by various inputs such as capital allocation and investment, falling capital costs, competitive LCOE and various policy mechanisms, we are now moving towards a new era for renewable...
The need to install additional power generation continues to be one of the most relevant issues in Southeast Asia. It’s a region with GDP growth rates of above 6% p.a. during the past decade[1] and where around one-fifth of its population (~25% larger than that of the...
Apricum Senior Consultant Meishi Tan's article "The hungry dragon: explaining China's 50 GW + PV market in 2017" was published in the February 2018 issue of PV Tech Power magazine. Read the article here. You can also download a free copy of the entire magazine here.
Apricum Senior Consultant Meishi Tan wrote this indepth analysis of China's enormous growth in PV installations in 2017 as a guest blooger PVTech.org. Read her article here.
At the beginning of 2017, the big question regarding solar in China was whether they could repeat the stunning ~35 GW performance of 2016. Yet, over the course of the year, the question transformed, quite surreally, to whether China would hit the 50 GW mark in 2017 –...
