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The US added 142,000 jobs to its clean energy sector in 2023, accounting for more than half of all new jobs added to the US energy industry.

Zvi Lando had been in the post for five years and served as SolarEdge’s VP of global sales for ten years prior to that.

Horizon Power, Western Australia’s region energy provider, has inked its first Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) with the Nyul Nyul people of Beagle Bay in Kimberley for a proposed solar PV development.

EIT InnoEnergy has launched the European Solar Academy to help train 65,000 people to work in the European PV sector.

Prominent fire safety experts, solar professionals and veteran firefighters have serious concerns about new PV hazard control solutions.

A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that new solar and wind capacity drove US$249 billion of economic benefits.

Charles Boynton will start his new position in Nextracker in May and lead Nextracker’s global finance and accounting organisation.

Provisional figures show that 2023 set a new and massive record for utility-scale solar, doubling the previous best.

Leading US solar companies have made several senior appointments to their teams, including REC Solar, CubicPV and Nextracker.

There are now 14 renewable energy projects in Australia that are being developed in partnership with First Nations indigenous communities, according to new figures from the First Nations Clean Energy Network (FNCEN).