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Credit Agricole and Korea Development Bank provide construction and term debt for the US$210m, 150MW first project phase, due to go live next spring.

UBS and Tetra Pak reach solar milestones in Southeast Asia as Argentina and Jordan switch on their own PV projects.

Under-construction Amin project is touted as the Sultanate’s first utility-scale solar scheme and the world’s first in the segment to feature an oil major as the sole offtaker.

Leading ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JinkoSolar has sourced a further two-year supply of high-purity polysilicon from Daqo New Energy to meet its material requirements under current in-house mono-wafer capacity expansions.

Solar Frontier Americas acquires GCL New Energy's 100MW Colorado project and Allianz buys 8minute's 67MW California plant

The Goyder South project mixing wind (1.2GW), solar (600MW) and batteries (800MW) is the latest of a deluge of enormous solar-plus-storage schemes proposed in the sunny island state.

TPC Construction partners with local firm Amatera Renewable Energy Corp to build 50MW project near Bacolod city, with search now underway for investor backers.

Dutch rooftop solar mounting provider claims purchase of US specialists IronRidge and Quick Mount PV gives it dominant share of country's residential mounting market.

Scheme is part of global series by UK-headquartered firm, including Canadian-funded 700MW-plus pipeline worldwide and 1.9GW push in Brazil.

New review finds renewables capacity investment in 2018 outstripped funding to new fossil fuels three-fold, with solar dominating roll-out charts.