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French oil giant TotalEnergies has acquired Ombrea, an agrivoltaics developer, for an undisclosed sum.

How community solar and agrivoltaics can help boost and improve the design phase of an agriPV project based on the crop grown.

Masdar and PLN Nusantara Power will expand the capacity of the 145MW Cirata floating solar project in Indonesia to up to 500MW.

Community solar developer Lightstar Renewables has started development of the first agrivoltaics project in New York, US.

Q Energy will begin construction on a floating solar project in north-eastern France this month, which will have a capacity of 74.3MW.

Interest in agrivoltaics (agriPV) in the US has started to grow among several developers PV Tech spoke to at the RE+ solar and storage trade event in Las Vegas last week.

Fraunhofer ISE has developed a perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cell, which boasts a conversion efficiency of “over 30%”.

Solar inverter producer SolarEdge has unveiled a new PV energy optimisation software system aimed at business owners and the corporate & industrial (C&I) solar sector.

As the world's population distribution changes, so too does its energy needs. One solution could be the emerging field of urban agrivoltaics.

By the end of 2023, PV production capacity will exceed 450GW, putting TOPCon technology first in market share in the following years.