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WoodMac: Bifacial Solar Market Set to Grow Tenfold by 2024

GreenTechMedia

It helps that it's relatively easy to retool existing monofacial module production facilities to manufacture bifacial modules, which provides supply certainty should the market demand the product. Similar mechanisms will drive bifacial development in Egypt and Africa.

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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

Business Green

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

Business Green

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand. No one likes to say 1.5C Known unknowns.