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Energy storage’s state-of-play, bifacial's fortunes in the trade war era and Latin American solar's rising star are among the key themes of latest edition of Solar Media’s journal.

Leading ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has reiterated PV module shipments to be in 14-15GW range in 2019 but noted that its order book for 2020 was rapidly filling up, due to strong global demand.

The forthcoming ground-mounted and rooftop tenders will help France move towards target of quadrupling its solar capacity by 2028.

The Norwegian developer also switched on 65MW of new capacity in Egypt's giant Benban complex this week.

Duo inks 12-year PPA for 50MWp Don Rodrigo 2, already under construction just a few kilometres away from 175MWp predecessor near Spain's Seville.

‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JA Solar has supplied 33.1MW of mono-PERC panels to Ukraine-based project developer, UDP Renewables for the Scythia-Solar-2 PV power plant in the Zaporizhia region of the country.

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) is including a number of key module reliability tests to its PV Module Product Qualification Program (PQP) that is more responsive to downstream market needs.

India's largest solar panel manufacturer, Waaree Energies said it was closing in on achieving cumulative solar module shipments of 2.5GW as its recent capacity expansions took nameplate production to 1.5GW.

MoU signed between Hamburg-based companies will see both jointly operate large-scale photovoltaic plants in Germany without subsidies.

Firm mourns loss of founder and former CEO after struggle with cancer, which saw him replaced by Zvi Lando as acting CEO earlier this month.