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Latest funding adds Goldwind as a major backer of the UK perovskite firm.

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Univergy International are to collaborate through a new business entity, Nara Solar to build over 700MW of PV projects in Spain, France and the Netherlands.

A new listed-fund in the UK will float next month with the intention of raising finance for US solar projects.

PV wet chemical processing equipment supplier RENA Technologies has been acquired by private equity firm, Equistone Partners Europe for an undisclosed sum.

China could re-instate its solar subsidies for certain projects after officials opened discussions with the industry.

IFC, ADB anchor green bond structure meant to fund 5GW-by-2025 renewable goal of Philippines player, with PV plants under construction in Vietnam.

Octopus survey finds grid-scale plants are most sought-after asset class for institutional financiers, with Australian names the most enthusiastic.

Cubico Sustainable Investments has closed the financing for two solar projects in Portugal totalling 29.4MW.

The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) market is currently struggling from a “large gulf” in understanding that standardised contracts could solve, but the industry is still a “long way off” from introducing them.

The continued growth of the secondary solar market on a pan-European scale will result in “exciting times” for the sector, but big utilities are unlikely to stay on the sidelines.