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Renewables company Scatec has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with alumina supplier Alunorte for its Mendibum solar project in Brazil.

German solar developer and EPC contractor juwi is joining forces with wind project developer Windwärts Energie.

Canadian Solar has completed the sale of two PV plants with a combined capacity of 345MWp in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Solar polysilicon prices jumped by a further 4% this week, fuelling industry assessments that prices will soon jump above the RMB300/kg (US$44.74/kg) barrier.

More than 2GW of solar has won contracts in the UK’s latest renewables auction clearing at a strike price of £53.40/MWh (US$64.19/MWh).

Solar and wind installations in the US generated more electricity than the country’s nuclear power plants for the first time in April.

Researchers at EPFL’s Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory and CSEM’s Sustainable Energy Centre have claimed an efficiency of over 30% for perovskite-on-silicon-tandem solar cells, establishing “two world records”.

A secure transition to net zero emissions globally will require countries to diversify and expand the production of solar modules, whose supply chains are heavily concentrated in China, according to new research from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Scotland-based renewables developer Renewco Power has acquired a 2GW pipeline of US-based solar and energy storage assets from Beaufort Rosemary.

Energy major Shell will start constructing a renewable hydrogen plant in the Netherlands that it said will be the largest project of its kind in Europe when operational in 2025.