Friday, 7 August 2026

Doosan Fuel Cell has won a contract worth about 108.7 billion won to supply mid-to-low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks to Reverion GmbH for European clean-energy projects, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

Hydrogen Fuel News described the order as the largest overseas contract Doosan Fuel Cell has signed to date.

Deliveries will be staged rather than made in a single shipment, running through the second half of 2027, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

Reverion intends to install the stacks in reversible SOFC/SOEC platforms, which the company plans to use to generate power from biogas, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. Reversible units of that type can run in fuel cell mode to produce electricity and in electrolysis mode to produce hydrogen, and the same stack hardware serves both functions.

Apollo Power's Panda Plus flexible solar module has obtained Class A fire certification from a certified laboratory, according to pv magazine. Company CEO Oded Rozenberg said that rating had previously only been achieved by rigid glass modules.

The frameless version of the module is rated at 320 W across a 2 m² surface, pv magazine reported.

Panda Plus was launched in June 2026 and comes in three formats built on the same fully flexible 72-cell platform.

Apollo Power makes all of its panels at its Israel facility, which the company put at roughly 200 MW of capacity, according to pv magazine.

Southern Africa's renewable energy market is shifting away from traditional power purchase agreements as merchant markets, trading, batteries and supply-demand dynamics reshape where investment goes, according to pv magazine.

The publication cites Dominic Goncalves, who said PPAs have been the central business contract underpinning renewable projects in the region for the last fifteen years. That single-contract model is now being displaced by a wider set of revenue sources.

Goncalves expects the next generation of projects in the region may carry several revenue components rather than depend on one PPA, according to pv magazine. The framing is a direct challenge to the bankability logic that has governed project finance in the market for more than a decade.

The change is also a change in the product. Africa's renewable market is moving beyond selling megawatt-hours and is instead beginning to sell firmness, flexibility, timing and energy security, Goncalves said in comments reported by pv magazine. Batteries and trading sit at the centre of that shift, alongside merchant exposure and supply-demand dynamics.

The transition is not uniform. Traditional PPAs are likely to remain prevalent in Southern African markets with limited liberalization, according to pv magazine. In South Africa, the REIPPPP is expected to remain an open route for renewable deployment.

That leaves two parallel procurement tracks in the same region: contracted offtake where market reform has not arrived, and multi-revenue merchant structures where trading and storage make firmness saleable.

The Gulf region is expected to add 12 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity this year and twice that amount next year, according to a BloombergNEF report cited by Semafor Net Zero.

The forecast holds despite tighter project financing. Semafor Net Zero reported that the Iran war has made funding Gulf solar and wind projects more difficult, while the economics still stack up firmly in their favor.

Equipment access does not appear to be the binding constraint. Semafor Net Zero pointed to the recent delivery of turbines to Saudi Arabia and the commissioning of a 1.1 GW wind farm in the kingdom as evidence that developers can still obtain the hardware and materials needed to finish projects.

South Korea's 400 MW Haenam solar power complex is scheduled for completion in 2028 and is expected to supply 529 GWh of electricity a year, according to pv magazine.

The site sits in the south of the country and covers roughly 4.79 million square metres of idle land, including reclaimed saline land, pv magazine reported. Within the complex, a 10 MW agrivoltaics array is planned.

Korea South-East Power Co. (KOEN) was selected earlier this year as the preferred engineering, procurement and construction bidder, according to pv magazine. Hanwha QCells announced in May that it had been chosen to supply the cells and modules, produced at the company's plant in the province of North Chungcheong.

A profit-sharing arrangement attached to the project is expected to return KRW 150 billion (USD 105.2 million) in power generation profits to the local community over the project period, the ministry said in remarks reported by pv magazine.

The build lands on a base that has been expanding steadily. Cumulative solar capacity in South Korea reached 30,346 MW at the end of 2025, a 3.6 GW increase on the figure reported at the end of 2024, according to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) data cited by pv magazine. At 400 MW, Haenam alone accounts for a substantial share of a single year's national additions at that pace.