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Panama has become very attractive to investors due to the government deploying a range of fiscal incentives to support PV.

Many Australian state governments have implemented favourable economic policies to encourage more solar investment within their borders.

A state-owned solar-plus-storage project being developed in Mexico firmly establishes the shift in government thinking on energy storage, a local battery storage firm told sister site Energy-Storage.news.

Investor confidence in the Australian clean energy market has been dented by “unhelpful and unpredictable” government interventions.

The U.S. Senate has approved two candidates for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that were nominated by President Donald Trump, bringing the agency to a full five members.

A small-scale trial of solar energy trading between households in Western Australia has found that peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading is technically feasible and that virtual power plants (VPPs) could help deliver a lower cost grid.

Srepek 1 and Quang Minh plants took around three months to build and are reportedly Vietnam’s largest operational PV project to date.

Large-scale event reportedly scheduled for June or July comes as part of government plans to greatly expand still-dormant PV sector.

Rooftop PV to become mandatory across large parking sites and new buildings by 2020 to help Spanish archipelago become 100% renewable by 2050.

Two years ago the UK government’s new feed-in tariff regime came into force, starting an immensely difficult period for the solar industry. Deployment has fallen by nearly 80%, and thousands of jobs have been lost. This is the inside track of how it happened.