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Homeowners across Afghanistan are set to benefit from the country's first pay-as-you-go (PAYG) home solar systems combined with energy storage batteries, being delivered in a pioneering new programme led by the IFC and d.Light.

Battery technologies hold most potential for nearly two-thirds of asset owners and managers polled by Aquila Capital.

Builder SHS Holdings warns country’s authorities could tear up PPA as plant may not be delivered in time despite deadline extension.

India's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved its solar for farmers scheme that aims to support 25,750MW of solar by 2022 with INR344 billion (~US$4.84 billion) of central government backing.

The second phase of the programme targeting 40GW of rooftop solar by 2022 backs residential solar systems and incentivises Discoms.

Renegotiating renewable tariffs agreed in the early 2010s to help technically insolvent state utility Eskom could “dent investor confidence”, says SAPVIA.

Innogy to build 57MWp in fresh capacity in Canada's Alberta, Terra Solar’s Waterford project survives council pushback, Better Energy lands corporate deal in Denmark with fashion group Bestseller.

Shell is to acquire German battery storage manufacturer sonnen in a bid to accelerate its home energy services position.

Group lands deal to build 100MW worth of plants in southern Russia, securing a €56.2 million loan to develop a further 90MW in projects in Kazakhstan.