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As 2019 draws to a close, PV Tech reflects on the year’s most impactful stories in the solar economy. Liam Stoker starts by looking back at the first three months of the year, when there was a major subsidy U-turn in China and the first of many manufacturing expansions.

Solar Media's Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe take a look at how utilities across the world are increasingly deploying sizeable solar and/or storage plants, and discuss the rise of long-duration storage.

Oil and gas major BP has increased its stake in international solar developer Lightsource BP in a bid to accelerate the firm’s growth.

Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, unveils significant growth in the UK’s utility-scale solar pipeline as the market looks set to return to gigawatt-level demand in 2020.

‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JA Solar has completed a buyout of a Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) listed company, after delisting from the NASDAQ in mid-2018.

Diversified renewables firm Shunfeng International Clean Energy (SFCE) has secured the sale of 11 PV power plants in China to reduce mounting debts.

Enel has announced a multi-billion-euro upgrade to its renewables investment programme as the utility plans to derive 60% of its power generation from renewables by 2022.

BNEF: Slide in China, Brazil and India drags global annual clean energy investment volumes from US$169bn to US$133bn, while coal power generation soars to new heights.

Grenergy Renovables has penned a solar supply agreement with Spanish utility Galp, its first such arrangement in the country.

Genex Power has secured AU$175 million (US$117 million) of debt to finance a new 50MW project and refinance an existing 50MW project in Australia.