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Four European countries have signed a joint agreement to establish a roadmap for exchanging electricity from renewable sources between Morocco and Europe.

France, Brazil, India and several other countries have signed a framework agreement as part of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the COP22 conference in Marrakech, according to Indian energy and mines minister Piyush Goyal.

Ardian Infrastructure has made its debut in the Latin American solar market in the US$31 million acquisition of four PV plants in Chile and Peru from Spanish EPC Solarpack.

France’s Ministry of Environment, Energy and Sea is launching 3GW of solar PV tenders over a three-year period.

French oil major Total has completed its acquisition of Saft, leading battery designer and manufacturer after a successful tender.

New French tenders announced last week could see the country become the largest single source of solar end demand in Europe.

French utility EDF is replacing its existing residential solar offering with a self-consumption model.

The UK installed 3.5GW of Europe’s 8GW of PV capacity in 2015, according to SolarPower Europe.

The power output from solar PV systems in France grew by 25% last year to 7.4TWh, up from 5.9TWh, according to the latest figures from the French electricity transmission system operator RTE.

Reports on the approval of 1,000km of solar roads in France have started to circulate, like a common cold. John Parnell explains why this, and other solar gimmicks give him road rage.