The Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy has awarded 995MW of solar PV and nearly 100MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) in a clean energy procurement auction.
German solar research centre the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has signed an agreement with Himachal Pradesh University to pursue research into floating solar PV.
Australia's installed cost of utility-scale solar has not fallen at the pace required to reach the country's “ultra-low-cost solar” (UCLS) ambitions, despite continued progress in cell and module efficiency.