SolarPower Europe has forecast that the EU solar workforce will decline from 874,000 FTEs in 2025 to 766,000 by 2030, despite growth in operations and maintenance, manufacturing, and recycling employment. The European Union’s solar workforce is expected to decline by 12% by 2030 as annual solar deployment stagnates around current levels and productivity gains reduce labour requirements, acco...
With two fires occurring in just 10 days, energy storage safety has once again become an unavoidable topic for the industry. On October 2, a Power Conversion System (PCS) unit caught fire at the Kayak Energy Storage Center in Florida, USA; even after the open flames were extinguished, the unit continued to smolder for another four hours. On October 12, a fire broke out in the finished-goods wareho...
Photovoltaic (PV) safety—a sudden, urgent wake-up call. 8,547 Wind and Solar Systems Left "Exposed" A report jointly released by the Dutch internet intelligence firm Modat and the National Cyber Security Centre of the Netherlands (NCSC-NL) reveals that across 40 countries—including EU member states, EFTA nations, and EU candidate countries—there are 8,547 systems linked ...
