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Indian solar PV manufacturer Vikram Solar has started commercial operations at its 5GW Vallam module manufacturing facility in India.

Chinese manufacturers account for nine of the world’s top ten polysilicon producers, led by Tongwei, GCL Technology and Daqo New Energy.

PowerField has completed construction of seven solar PV projects in the Netherlands with a combined capacity of 170MW.

Zelestra has signed a PPA with technology giant Microsoft to sell power generated at a 95.7MW solar PV portfolio.

ACME Platinum has signed a PPA with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for a 200MW solar-plus storage project in India.

Delegates at this year’s COP30 summit agreed to a “global mutirão”, meaning “collective efforts”, to tackle climate change, but the final text of the summit includes no framework for reducing fossil fuel production.

BNZ has started commercial operations at a portfolio of solar PV projects in Spain with a combined capacity of 150MW.

CPS Energy has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to acquire 600MW of new solar capacity through power purchase agreements (PPA).

Climate Fund Managers (CFM) has started commercial operations at the 26.4MW Pétalo del Norte I solar PV project in Colombia.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will need to invest US$25 billion by 2030 to maintain its position as a leader in the global energy sector.