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US news in brief: A pair of bills expand Nebraskan community solar, Texas utility CPS Energy expands its residential and commercial solar rebate programme by US$15 million, and GRID Alternatives receives a US$2 million grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to continue expanding its work in low-income solar access.

Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO) and Texas’ NRG Energy have signed new PPAs to bring online over 100MW of new solar in Oahu, with three utility-scale PV projects.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot has announced a new US$30 million for solar integration projects, as the initiative is in hot water after president Trump indicated plans for its closure.

UK off-grid solar company Azuri Technologies has launched an PayGo solar home system partnership with Nigeria’s Delta Power Holding (NDPHC).

Massachusetts has introduced major restructuring of its solar energy incentives, with the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) extending the Renewable Energy Credit programme (SREC) further into 2017.

NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Florida’s NextEra Energy, is to build Wisconsin’s largest solar project – the 100MW Solar Energy Centre in Point Beach.

Whilst clean energy might be thought of as a partisan issue in the States, when it comes to installing solar, political parties are irrelevant, according to a new study by PowerScout.

The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) has adopted new changes to state requirements to make it easier for consumers to go solar.

Taiwan state-owned utility Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) has delayed plans to commission 500MW of solar by 2020 by two years, now scheduling 300MWp of that solar to be online by 2022.

French renewable energy company Voltalia has broken ground on its first solar PV plant in Brazil.