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Silicon Module Super League (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has completed a 56.3MW solar power project on a former golf course in Japan.

GE delivers inverters to Pacifico's 96MW Japan solar project, Samsung Electronics eyes 100% renewables in China, Europe and US with solar and geothermal, Voltalia commissions 10MW PV project in France.

Swiss IPP Etrion has completed the 13.2MW Komatsu solar project in Japan, with the installation now performing full operations.

Kyocera TCL Solar has completed construction on a 29.2MW utility-scale solar power plant in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.

Solar Media, the publisher of sites including Energy-Storage.News and PV Tech, has just launched the latest edition of the annual Global Energy Storage Opportunity report for this year - available now as a free download.

Clean energy developer Vena Energy, formerly Equis Energy, has commissioned a 41MW solar project in Yaita City, in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

EPM installs Colombia's 'first' floating PV project, Iran’s South Khorasan Province gets first 10MW solar project, Clenergy bags orders form Japan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Sharp Solar, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based contract electronics giant Foxconn has reported a verified heterojunction back contact (HBC) solar cell on a large-area (6-inch) N-type monocrystalline wafer with a conversion efficiency of 25.09%.

Kyocera has announced that its latest floating solar (FPV) power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir in Chiba Prefecture, Japan is operational, making the 13.7MW FPV plant the largest in Japan.

According to European trade association SolarPower Europe, preliminary global solar installations reached 98.9GW in 2017, a 29.3% increase over the previous year and another new record.