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The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has raised R$1.14 billion (US$200 million) to support the development of 402MW of new solar capacity.

Canadian Solar will serve as an OEM partner to Solarcycle, while the recycling firm will be the manufacturer’s preferred recycling partner.

In its 3Q 2024 Global PV Market Outlook, the commodity market research firm BNEF has revised its target for solar PV additions in 2024 to reach 592GW.

The stalking horse bid from Complete Solaria was set at US$45 million earlier this month when SunPower filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed using 31 million acres of public land for the development of solar PV across 11 US western states.

The US distributed solar sector added 808,349 new operational systems in 2023, a record figure for a 12-month period.

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.

Ontario’s request for proposal will seek nearly all technologies – solar PV, wind, nuclear, natural gas, biomass and hydroelectric – while limiting solar PV’s deployment on agricultural land.

US renewable energy developer Arevon has begun construction on the 251MW Gibson solar PV project in Gibson County, Indiana.

Construction of the Rosamond South I project, in Kern County, has already started and is expected to reach commercial operations in 2025.