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Nuclear and renewable energy technology engineer, Areva has teamed up with renewables energy generator and distributor, Schneider Electric.

Industry advocacy body, the Australian Solar Council, has launched a ‘save solar’ campaign.

Gujarat, India’s leading solar state, is to introduce a net metering policy in the coming weeks, according to local press reports.

The joint European PV GRID project has published a set of technical proposals aimed at enhancing the integration of PV systems onto the grid.

Power control and monitoring equipment specialist, skytron energy has received cETLus approval to the UL/CSA 60950-1 equipment safety standard rounds of UL certification for its skycontrol power plant controller.

Wildly varying reports of Kenya’s plans for deploying solar energy have been dismissed by power industry and policy figures in the East African country.

Chile’s pipeline of approved but unbuilt PV projects reached over 5.33GW at the end of December, according to the country’s renewable energy research centre CER.

Leading economics and science experts in the UK have called for an international push akin to the Apollo space mission to kick-start the deployment of renewable energy storage technology.

Grid-connected energy storage installed globally will exceed 40GW by 2022, according to a research report by IHS published in late December.

French battery company Saft will lead a consortium building a photovoltaic (PV) power plant combined with a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery energy storage system on the island of La Réunion, Indian Ocean.