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New Zealand gentailer Contact Energy has completed installation of all solar modules at the 150MW Kōwhai Park solar PV power plant at Christchurch Airport.

Solar racking producer Schletter Group has completed construction on a 96MWp solar PV project in northern Italy.

US independent power producer (IPP) Arevon Energy has begun construction on a 124MW solar PV project in Illinois, its first utility-scale project in the state.

Meridian Energy will begin construction of its 120MW Ruakākā Solar Farm in Tai Tokerau Northland, New Zealand, in August 2025.

AMEA Power has started construction at a 50MW solar power plant in Gontougo, in the north-east of the Ivory Coast.

DP Energy has sold permission to develop a 325MW solar project in Canada to the City of Medicine Hat in south-east Alberta.

This comes after the IPP received siting permit and a formal notice to proceed with construction from the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission (ORES).

The portfolio consists of five sites spread across three autonomous communities - Castilla y León, Andalusia and Castilla-la Mancha.

Avantus and Toyota Tsusho America's 125MWac Norton Solar project is expected to begin commercial operations in late 2025.

BayWa r.e. has completed the construction of five solar farms, with a combined capacity of 136MW, on two former military bases in France.