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Tata Power Renewable Energy has commissioned a 300MW solar PV project for Indian hydropower company NHPC in Rajasthan. 

JinkoSolar shipped just over 20GW of solar PV modules in the third quarter of this year, down sequentially from the previous quarter.

Qcells has announced plans to reduce pay and working hours for one-third of its 3,000 employees in the US state of Georgia.

The Philippines has awarded 10.19GW of new energy capacity in its fourth auction round, with solar accounting for more than 6GW of capacity.

The increasing technical complexity of the renewable energy space has increased the demands on capital raising for those in the sector.

Osaka Gas and Sonnedix have announced plans to install a BESS at the latter's 38.7MW Oita solar project in Japan.

Voltec Solar has signed a supply deal to use solar cells produced by Toyo Solar in its solar modules produced in France.

Radovan Kopecek and Christian Peter look ahead to an event in Yiwu, China, later this month, where the wider commercialisation of high-efficiency back contact PV technology will be under the spotlight.

Runergy has reported that its latest n-type TOPCon solar cell has achieved a conversion efficiency of 26.55%.

Damage to solar from so-called Natural Catastrophe events is increasing as the technology expands its reach and weather conditions worsen.