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PV installer Blue Oak Energy has completed the installation of a 4.2MW PV system in Gridley in the US state of California.

Taiwan has announced its intention to increase its 2013 solar PV target to 130MW from 100MW.

Bill Gates has given financial backing to the development of a new energy storage system aimed at cutting the intermittency of renewable energy technologies such as solar.

The government of Balochistan and CK Solar Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a 300MW PV project near Quetta, Pakistan.

Monitoring and solar system company Draker has completed the installation of its first panel-to-grid monitoring solution in Japan.

Germany registered over 211MW of newly installed PV capacity in February, according to new figures from the German Federal Network Agency.

US manufacturer Solectria Renewables is to supply its inverters to a 2.5MW ground-mounted PV system in Roswell, New Mexico.

Real Goods Solar chief executive this week admitted that 2012 should have been "a much better year" for the company given the remarkable growth of solar in the US.

PV capacity in the Emerging Asia Pacific and Central Asia (EAPCA) region is forecast to exceed 3GW by 2017, according to a new report from market analyst company NPD Solarbuzz.

The government of New South Wales in Australia has approved plans to build a 50MW PV facility, called Broken Hill, which will be located around five kilometres from Broken Hill in New South Wales.