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The capacity is spread across three commissioned projects: the 40MWp Greenberry, 40MW Fontenet 3 and the 47MW Amance projects.

Under this new domestic content requirement, solar PV cells based on crystalline-silicon technology would be considered to be domestically manufactured only if they used undiffused silicon wafers.

Terabase Energy has raised US$130 million in finance to support the scale-up of its Terafab solar project assembly line.

The Philippines has started an auction scheme for renewable power paired with storage which aims to tender over 9GW of capacity.

“We want to scale up our localisation drive in solar materials," said managing director of the Rural Electrification Agency.

JA Solar has signed a module supply agreement with Exel Solar to provide 260MW of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) modules.

Adapture Renewables has acquired a 110MW solar-plus-storage project from Samsung C&T Renewables in Colorado.

Osaka Gas has partnered with Clean Max Enviro Energy Solutions to form a JV to develop a 400MW renewable energy portfolio in India.

Rio Tinto has inked deals with Edify Energy to secure power and BESS capacity to decarbonise its aluminium operations in Queensland.

Fraunhofer ISE research suggests that the average monocrystalline silicon PV module’s power output was 1.2% lower than its nominal capacity.