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German renewable energy developer BayWa r.e., along with its Dutch subsidiary GroenLeven, has sold a 46MW floating solar PV (FPV) project in the northern province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

The US House of Representatives has passed a permitting reform bill reducing the environmental scrutiny on large energy projects.

Wang Bohua, honorary chairman of the China PV Industry Association (CPIA), said that the polysilicon production in China experienced its first year-on-year decline since 2013, while wafer production registered its first year-on-year decline since 2009.

'The UK market has matured,' Guy Lavarack, chief investment officer at the Luminous Energy Group, tells PV Tech Premium this week.

The latest edition of our print journal, PV Tech Power, is out today and available to download, where we deep dive into PV quality assurance.

French renewables company Voltalia has started site preparation works on a 43MW/135MWh solar-plus-storage project in French Guiana, a French overseas territory in South America.

Pivot Energy has completed three financing agreements, totalling US$225 million, while CleanCapital has raised US$185 million.

UAE-based renewables developer AMEA Power has commissioned a 120MW solar PV plant in the central Tunisian governorate of Kairouan, the country’s largest operational PV project.

Spanish IPP Grenergy has secured a senior non-recourse financing agreement worth €98.8 million for the172MW Ayora solar PV project in Spain.

Petrobras has acquired 49.9% of solar developer Lightsource bp’s subsidiaries in Brazil, for a 'not materially significant' amount of money.