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Developer inks two 15-year PPAs with store chains CCK and El Puerto de Liverpool for US$160 million project near US border, set to come online in H2 2020.

Stark warning from watchdog AEMC piles new spotlight on dangers posed by country’s embattled grid, with major investor groups lobbying against revenue-crippling power loss calculations.

The fresh funding wraps up a summer of global expansion for the Norwegian firm, with utility-scale projects switched on in Ukraine, Egypt, Mozambique and Malaysia.

Financiers will each pump US$53 million into the deployment of two adjacent 40MW solar farms already being built by EPC contractor Grupotec.

Tech giant to procure 85MW of solar from project set to come online in 2021 via long-term PPA with Engie, featuring a so-called 'innovative volume firming agreement'.

Lightsource BP has secured US$140 million financing for a portfolio of seven utility-scale PV projects across the US.

Four-project portfolio heralds rise of New England's solar-plus-storage industry after years of "behind-the-scenes" activity, according to developer.

Virtual agreements include 482GWh-a-year supply from 200MW Texas solar plant and are set to power firm's operations in three US states from next fall.

PPA unveiled alongside 160MW wind deal with Duke Energy set to help US telecoms giant save 10 times more greenhouse gas than its operations emit by 2025.

Q CELLS launches "largest solar factory in western hemisphere," Sungrow touts new product line in India, Arctech and Risen announce deals in Kazakhstan and Ukraine.