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The Australian government has granted development approval for Lightsource bp’s proposed 450MW Goulburn River Solar Farm in New South Wales.

On Friday (4 October), the US and Australia emphasised their support for developing clean solar PV supply chains, which could leverage both countries’ investments and complementary resources from their respective solar industries.

Investment in off-grid solar will be essential to provide electricity to 398 million people who are expected to be in energy poverty by 2030.

The partnership aims to boost the sale of solar cell equipment in India amidst a growth in capacity announcements.

PV Tech spoke to sun.store about its latest report, showing a downward trend for prices for monofacial and bifacial modules in Europe.

Once complete, the project is intended to produce 5GW of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) cells and 3GW of modules.

Zelestra has acquired a majority stake in German independent power producer (IPP) East Energy GmbH from CropEnergies.

NextPower UK ESG has signed one of the UK’s largest solar sleeved PV PPAs with Anglian Water Services covering the 75MW Llanwern project.

Indian state-owned energy company GAIL has partnered with green gases producer AM Green (AMG) to jointly explore establishing 2.5GW of hybrid solar PV and wind projects across India.

Engie said the loan would support its plan to phase out coal from its portfolio by 2025 in continental Europe and 2027 worldwide.