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Finnish utility Fortum has begun development on an 80MW solar PV plant in Finland’s Virolahti municipality in the Southeast of the country bordering Russia. It will be Fortum’s first solar PV project in its home country.

Industrial group Soltech has signed an agreement with Norwegian PV developer Solgrid to construct a 300MW solar portfolio in Sweden.

US utility AES Corporation has added the 2GW Bellefield solar-plus-storage project to its portfolio after acquiring it from the project developer, Avantus.

The development-stage 490MW Duffy solar PV project near Houston, Texas has changed hands; nascent US independent power producer (IPP) Linea Energy has bought the project from London-based Horus Energy.

Swiss renewable energy developer Axpo has entered the Spanish PV market with a 200MW solar plant in the province of Castilla y León.

A round-up of the latest news from the floating PV market, including the US' "largest" floating PV plant, Akuo's floating project in France and Portugal's tender for FPV.

German renewables developer Blue Elephant Energy has acquired a 120MWp Chilean solar PV portfolio, expanding its presence in the country to 281MW.

British-headquartered oil giant Shell has acquired 1.1GW worth of solar PV projects from Spanish solar generation company Isemaren.

Clean energy company Nexamp has secured US$400 million in debt and equity financing to develop up to 250MW of community solar and storage projects across the US.

Emeren Group – a global solar PV developer – has sold its 58MW Polish solar portfolio to Spectris Energy. The projects were sold ‘ready to build’, and Spectris will handle construction and own the projects long-term.