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E.ON has started construction on its West of the Pecos solar project, a 100MW PV project located approximately 75 miles southwest of Midland-Odessa in Reeves County, Texas.

Ras Al Khaimah, one of the seven emirates making up the UAE, has revealed a 1.2GW solar ambition as it launches a sustainable building code.

EDF Renewables North America has been awarded a contract from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to build a 170 MWac PV power plant near the town of Mount Morris, New York state.

Leading ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has highlighted success using new LeTID (Light elevated Temperature Induced Degradation) testing standards in minimising performance losses in its P-type mono-PERC and N-type monocrystalline solar cells.

Hanergy Thin Film Power Group has claimed a new conversion efficiency record for an N-type monocrystalline heterojunction solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 24.23%.

After signing off on a financing partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), XacBank has become the first private bank in Mongolia to fund the completion of a large-scale PV project.

US Light Energy has been selected to construct 16MW of solar generation capacity for the benefit of the Tri-County Energy Cooperative and its members.

Saudi Arabia has launched the second round of its solar power tender programme with a request for proposals for 1.5GW of solar.

The continued growth of the secondary solar market on a pan-European scale will result in “exciting times” for the sector, but big utilities are unlikely to stay on the sidelines.

Corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy swelled to 13.4GW in 2018, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).