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Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) will soon tender for utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Bankrupt renewables firm SunEdison has confirmed that it will collaborate with its two yieldco companies, TerraForm Power and TerraForm Global to hopefully sell and monetize its controlling Class ‘B’ shares in both companies.

Norwegian integrated independent solar power producer Scatec Solar doubled its power production from last year, according to a Stock Exchange filing.

Portugal’s government approved 180MW of solar PV projects without subsidy in the Alejanto region over a six-month period up to May 2016.

Employment in the UK’s domestic solar industry has contracted by approximately one-third in the last year against a backdrop of subsidy cuts and other policy interventions, and further job losses are strongly expected.

Asia-based EVA encapsulant material producer HIUV New Materials said it successfully developed an encapsulant for N-type cell based PV modules that limits PID (Potential Induced Degradation).

Bankrupt renewables firm SunEdison has received official interest in purchasing all class ‘A’ series share holding in yieldco, TerraForm Power.

In the wake of fierce clashes over the alleged cause of electricity prices peaking in South Australia, the Clean Energy Council (CEC) has called for a national summit on energy market reform to set the record straight.

Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India are planning to set up a 1GW solar energy plant in the state of Madhya Pradesh in order to power their oil refineries, according to a senior figure of the state’s renewable energy agency.

Leading UK trade union The Trade Union Congress (TUC), has claimed that the global green economy could offer vital support for a post-Brexit Britain and create thousands of additional jobs in the country.

Some Green Energy Corridor projects aiming to expand the transmission network to South India are facing major delays, according to power and mines minister Piyush Goyal.

The international renewable yieldco of bankrupt SunEdison, TerraForm Global has issued some preliminary unaudited financial figures for the first quarter of 2016, while still dependent on SunEdison for filing its delayed 2015 annual report and first quarter results with the US SEC.

Following the termination of the proposed merger with NextEra, Hawaiian Electric (HECO) has withdrawn its application for approval of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract.

Indian state-owned mining, metal and power firm National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is tendering for the setting up of a 20MW solar PV project in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Polysilicon producer REC Silicon’s strategy to win customers outside China via discounted pricing on its FBR granular polysilicon is set to continue after Chinese anti-dumping duties are dropped and when its joint venture FBR (B) facility in China starts production in the second-half of 2017.