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Mississippi Power and Silicon Ranch Corporation, along with local officials from the city of Hattiesburg, Forrest County and the Area Development Partnership held a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday for the state’s largest PV project in Hattiesburg.

European companies have dominated the list of prequalified companies for Abu Dhabi’s 350MW solar tender.

Off-grid solar specialist Nova-Lumos has received a £150,000 grant from the SolarNigera Programme (SNP), an initiative of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) implemented by Adam Smith International, to help accelerate its operations in northern Nigeria.

Chilean utility Colbun is to purchase two of SunEdison’s solar PV projects in development in Chile along with their long-term power supply contracts.

US-based solar developer Ecoplexus has commissioned six solar PV projects, totaling 54MW in North Carolina at US$79 million in value.

Texas will get 15MW of new community solar from RES Distributed, a division of Renewable Energy Systems (RES).

Remote schools in West Africa can suffer from high levels of dropouts, a lack of enthusiasm and low rates of literacy and numeracy, but solar technology is now offering a chance to reinvigorate some of the lowest performing schools. PV Tech visited a school that is benefiting from such solar and software installations in the Greater Accra region of Ghana.

Last Wednesday, the US Senate passed a long-awaited energy bill as a bipartisan measure to modernise the nation’s oil, gas and electricity systems and align them with more climate-friendly solutions.

The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has qualified 17 solar equipment manufacturers to receive funding in Brazil.

SunPower has teamed up with AT&T, one of the US’ biggest multinational telecommunications corporations, to bring Internet of Things (IoT) technology to the residential market via the ‘Equinox’ solar PV system.