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Welcome to the PV Tech Best of the Week roundup, covering the week's biggest stories from the global solar industry.

Nava Limited commissioned a 100MW solar PV project in Zambia through MSEL, with power evacuation to the national grid underway.

ESR, a Singapore-headquartered real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate and data centres, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Aquila Clean Energy APAC.

Indian solar cell and module manufacturer Websol Energy System has secured land for the construction of its 4GW cell and module manufacturing plant in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) will funnel US$5.25 billion into 31 “grid-improvement” projects across the US, which it claims will allow for 23GW of additional electricity capacity.

German renewables developer Energiequelle has sold its French subsidiary to French independent power producer H2air.

The replacement of decommissioned solar projects will account for 23% of new capacity additions by the 2040s, according to Wood Mackenzie.

MITECO has launched consultations to allocate up to 11GW of grid capacity to renewable energy and storage projects.

LONGi has unveiled a hybrid interdigitated back contact (HIBC) solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 28.29%, a record for the company.

Waaree Energies will merge group company Indosolar with itself in a transaction valued at about INR 9.5 billion (US$ 99 million).