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US manufacturer NEXTracker has won the contract to supply tracking for the 191.5MW Pirapora project in Brazil.

IDFC acquires 45MW India plants, Colorado Energy Office opens community solar array and Mato Grosso Do Sol ditches ICMS for solar self-consumption.

Some of the BRICS nations are witnessing a shortfall of billions of dollars in the renewables investment required to meet climate change mitigation policies, according to a report from the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

EDF Energies Nouvelle and 'Silicon Module Super League' (SMSL) member Canadian Solar will collaborate on the 191.5MW Pirapora I project, with the latter selling 80% of its stake in the facility.

Brazil’s development bank BNDES has approved new financing conditions for the energy sector, which favour solar.

Brazil now has 4,955 solar PV systems in the micro and mini-generation category, as of August 2016, marking a five-fold increase in one year.

Enel Green Power Brasil Participações (EGPB), a subsidiary of Italian power firm Enel, has started construction of a 103MW solar plant in the State of Bahia, Brazil.

A 264MW solar PV plant has been approved by the state government in the Brazilian state of Ceará.

Rio gets solar map, JinkoSolar supplies Kuwait's first PV project

Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has released new guidelines for transmission, which will come into play in time for the wind and solar projects to be tendered in the second reserve energy auction this December.