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Leading ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has established a consortium with Marubeni Corporation and the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company to build a 1,177MWp (DC) PV power plant in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Charlotte, North Carolina-headquartered Duke Energy has officially switched on its first Indiana PV offering.

Tesla, Inc reported significantly lower than guided solar installations for the fourth quarter of 2016, after the first quarter of integration of acquired SolarCity.

Karim Megherbi, director of Origination for Africa & Central Asia at Dubai-based Access Power stopped by PV Tech to discuss why West Africa will materialise as the next hotspot for solar PV and how investors can take advantage of this.

PV inverter manufacturer Growatt has supplied CP2000 Station-S compact central inverters to a recently completed 20MW project in Thailand developed by Jetion Solar.

High-efficiency PV module producer and project developer SunPower has reached a production average cell conversion efficiency of 25% at its Fab 4 facility in the Philippines, the highest in the industry.

Taiwan-based merchant cell and module producer Neo Solar Power (NSP) said its downstream IPP (Independent Power Producer) entity Clean Focus Yield (CFY) is to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

US-based start-up WattGlass has secured a Series A round of funding led by material sciences firm, DSM that was said to support its efforts to commercialise its anti-reflective and anti-soiling coating for PV panels.

As part of the US Department Of Energy’s (DOE) Sunshot Initiative and led by SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium have announced the launch of the Solar Energy Optimization Testkit, a new set of evaluation capabilities for photovoltaic systems.

Colombian developer Celsia will start constructing the first utility-scale solar PV project in Colombia in March this year, with operations to start in Q3.