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In this week’s Movers & Shakers segment, PV Tech reports on JinkoSolar bringing solar PV front and centre at Europe’s B20 Energy, Climate & Resource Efficiency Taskforce, former SEIA chief Rhone Resch’s new industry venture, and utility-scale wind and solar projects in south Australia. Also this week, PV Tech partners with the Global Energy Talent Index - complete the survey for a chance to win!

Balfour Beatty Communities and SolarCity are nearing completion of close to 7MW of PV energy at Air Force family housing over four states.

Mexico is set to hit between 30-40GW of solar PV installations by 2040 under various scenarios projected by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

A Singapore university is running the world’s largest testing centre for floating solar PV systems looking at economic and technical feasibility.

EV manufacturer and battery specialist Tesla Motors has reported strong results with a return to profit in Q3 this year.

Headquartered in California, Sunpreme has launched the Maxima GxB380 SM, 380W, touted as the most advanced high efficiency bifacial panels with integrated a TIGO optimizer and uses its proprietary ‘Hybrid Cell Technology’ (HCT) platform.

Suzlon Group has formed a joint venture with India-based renewables firm Ostro Energy to develop a 50MW PV project at Wanaparthy in the Indian state of Telangana.

India’s largest utility NTPC has invited bids for a single solar PV project of 250MW capacity to be set up at the Kadapa Solar Park in Andhra Pradesh under open category.

Residential installer Sunrun has teamed up with LG Chem, a Korean battery manufacturer, to offer solar-plus-storage systems in the US.

KACO new energy has signed off on a deal to supply 2.5MW of inverter capacity to Hungary. The order has been placed with the German photovoltaic specialist by Hungarian EPC and distributor Szalontai.