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The New York state government has awarded permits to 6.4GW of new clean energy projects in the state, 1.5GW of which will be in solar plants.

Clearway Energy has started commercial operations at its Daggett solar-plus-storage facility in the US state of California.

Qcells has completed expansion work at its module manufacturing facility in Dalton, bringing the total capacity of the facility to 5.1GW.

Flexrack has signed an agreement with Alltrade to assist the development of two under-construction solar projects in Canada.

The US EIA has published its latest report, which predicts that, by 2050, India could dominate the world’s solar installations.

Advanced Power has sold its under-development Oriana solar-plus-storage project in the US state of Texas to Sabanci Renewables.

Consumers Energy will build an 85MW solar plant at the site of two coal-fired power plants in Michigan, which it closed in June this year.

Soltec has signed an agreement to provide a new solar project in the US state of Missouri with 302MW of its SF7 tracker.

The EIA's latest figures reveal 6% decline in the average cost of building a new solar facility in the US between 2020 and 2021.

The PV CellTech USA conference gets underway in San Francisco today, to explore the opportunities for PV manufacturing in the US.