Apricum Senior Advisor Moritz Sticher offered his expert insights for PV Magazine’s recent article on Malaysia’s plans to grant 4-year PPA extensions to bidders in large-scale solar tenders.
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2022: another record year for the Chinese solar market
Apricum Senior Advisor Frank Haugwitz gives updates on another record year for China’s booming solar photovoltaic industry while outlining the recent government support plans.
PV Magazine: Vietnam set to open renewable energy market to PPAs
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).

Solar power in ASEAN: market regulatory and M&A updates and highlights
Apricum Senior Advisor Moritz Sticher provides his outlook and insight into the latest developments in the Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, Filipino, and Indonesian solar markets.

Europe should seriously rethink its position on local solar photovoltaic manufacturing
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.

China Table: Innovative pilot program puts more solar on rooftops
Apricum Senior Advisor, Frank Haugwitz spoke to China Table about the nation’s ambitious plan to install 100 gigawatts of new solar capacity on public and private rooftops by the end of 2023.

UAE Joins Net Zero Momentum
The UAE has announced a bold energy policy decision, underscoring its seriousness to becoming Net Zero by 2050. On February 3, 2022, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed, chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, announced that its flagship 2.4 GW Hassyan coal power plant...

Will China’s ‘double carbon’ and ‘dual control’ policies drive demand for solar?
One might expect that China’s recently announced emission-reduction policies would have only a positive impact for the solar industry, however, the effects are mixed. The subsequent power restrictions imposed on almost all provinces and regions have pushed up prices...

Apricum Advises on HV Capital’s Investment in Solar System Provider Enpal’s EUR 100M funding round
Berlin, August 16, 2021: Apricum – The Cleantech Advisory acted as commercial due diligence advisor to their client HV Capital, the lead investor in photovoltaic systems provider Enpal’s EUR 100M funding round. Berlin-based Enpal uses a subscription model requiring no...
September 7, 2021: The Solar Future Netherlands, Utrecht
Apricum Partner Florian Mayr will be one of the expert speakers at The Solar Future Netherlands, organized by Solarplaza. The event takes place in Utrecht on September 7, 2021. Get in touch to meet us there.

Strong growth ahead: A solar market outlook for the Middle East
The Middle East region, and the Gulf in particular, has been home to record low solar tariffs in recent years. Major projects are being awarded via tenders, with prices gradually closing in on a remarkable 1 USDct/kWh. Of course, this is no coincidence due to the...

The Renaissance of the European PV industry
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...