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The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has awarded €360 million (US$415 million) to 1.14GW of solar PV co-located with battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Galileo is advancing a 630MW renewables pipeline in France, with permitting applications for 11 projects due in the coming months.

Trade association the Global Solar Council (GSC) has launched an agrivoltaics (agriPV) task force aimed at accelerating solar PV’s growth globally.

The Solar Energy Industries Association has launched an interactive map showing that solar development occupies only 0.07% of US farmland.

Danish IPP European Energy has started constructing a 225.5MW agrivoltaic solar PV project in Sicily, which it claims will be the “largest” such project in Italy.

New York state has granted final siting permits to the AES Corporation’s 125MW Sugar Maple solar-plus-storage project.

Italian renewables platform Whysol Renewables has secured financing towards four agrivoltaics plants and two battery energy storage systems (BESS) in southern Italy.

Spanish utility Endesa has started commercial operations at a 131MW solar PV portfolio in its home country.

Portuguese PV cleaning specialist Chemitek Solar has launched a new solution for drone-based cleaning of agrivoltaic systems.

Yield Energy has launched Yield Edge, a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) for grid-ready flexibility from farms.