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Rio Tinto has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with European Energy to buy all of the power at the latter’s Upper Calliope solar farm.

Solarpack has signed a 25-year PPA to sell power generated at its upcoming 410MW Gorbea solar project to SECI.

The ten members of ASEAN plus Timor-Leste, have over 28GW of operating utility-scale solar and wind capacity.

GCLSI has signed a module supply contract with NTPC Renewable Energy to supply the company with 1.1GW of solar modules.

In the first week of 2024, a number of Chinese PV companies published their first quotes of the year for PV products.

The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) has commissioned 400MW of a 1GW solar project in Uzbekistan.

LONGi has developed a crystalline silicon heterojunction back-contact solar cell, which boasts a conversion efficiency of 27.09%.

First Solar has signed a PPA with Cleantech Solar, which will see the latter build 150MW of new solar capacity in India.

From the world’s largest project being commissioned to a possible downturn for solar manufacturers in 2024, and including the US Department of Treasure releasing guidance from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here, PV Tech runs down its top 10 stories of the past 12 months.

In the final days of the year, PV Tech is looking back at the solar sector in 2023, including the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.