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President Lungu cuts red ribbon of 54MW Bangwelulu project, the first to be tendered, financed and built under the World Bank’s Scaling Solar programme.

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Univergy International are to collaborate through a new business entity, Nara Solar to build over 700MW of PV projects in Spain, France and the Netherlands.

Single-axis PV tracker firm, Array Technologies has secured a 333MW order for its DuraTrack HZ v3 system for the Darlington Point Solar Farm, 50 kilometers south of Griffith, New South Wales.

Grid expansion push is first of nine projects set to help country accommodate renewable surge all the way to 2025.

Srepek 1 and Quang Minh plants took around three months to build and are reportedly Vietnam’s largest operational PV project to date.

Industry body: Urgent review needed for marginal loss factor system causing “unpredictable hits” to the financial viability of PV and others.

India continues with 1.2GW of PV in Madhya Pradesh, 275MW in Uttar Pradesh, and a significant solar-plus-storage tender in Andhra Pradesh, while the prime minister approves the 'National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage'.

‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member LONGi Solar, a subsidiary of the world’s largest monocrystalline wafer producer, LONGi Green Energy will shortly have exceeded 13GW of module assembly production after a new 5GW plant ramps to full capacity in 2019.

Agreements combining solar and wind to become a reality given their ability to mitigate intermittency costs, says WBCSD report.

Developer signs individual deals with Jacksonville utility for each of the five 50MW distributed generation projects under planning.