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Canadian PV manufacturer Heliene has secured US$170 million to grow its existing module assembly plant with two new 300MW lines.

Norwegian solar ingot manufacturer NorSun has announced its decision to temporarily stop production and lay off employees due to the influx of "exceptionally low price" Chinese solar modules.

SolarEdge has launched its latest product, a 330kW inverter, alongside a “complementing” H1300 power optimiser.

Longroad Energy has extended a module supply agreement with First Solar, and now expects to acquire an additional 2GW of First Solar modules.

The US Department of Energy has started receiving application for a US$10 million funding and technical assistance programme.

SolarPower Europe has warned of the “deeply precarious” impacts of collapsing costs in the global solar sector.

Dimension has announced the closing of a US$237 million financing, which will support a 120MWdc distributed generation portfolio.

Ampt has announced plans to deliver 195MW of string optimisers to a “utility-scale solar-plus-storage project” in North America.

Multiple European cell and module manufacturers, start-ups and solar PV component suppliers have published an open letter via the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC), urging the EU to take actions to safeguard the European PV manufacturing industry threatened by "unsustainably low-priced PV modules" from Chinese module manufacturers.

Trina Solar plans to build a new module manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas, with a production capacity of 5GW.