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Firms to each own half of 186MWp capacity (150MW rated) built with US$180 million investment at government-sponsored Benban complex.

Large-scale event reportedly scheduled for June or July comes as part of government plans to greatly expand still-dormant PV sector.

Winners of April 2019 snap poll will have to decide whether new proposals for a PV scale-up and new auction scheme become hard law.

1MW facility installed by Enerwhere at corporate rooftop near Dubai becomes latest example of the budding appetite for automated cleaning technology.

Builder SHS Holdings warns country’s authorities could tear up PPA as plant may not be delivered in time despite deadline extension.

Group lands deal to build 100MW worth of plants in southern Russia, securing a €56.2 million loan to develop a further 90MW in projects in Kazakhstan.

Germany and Spain to catch up the fastest amid boom set to multiply solar generation by 60 between 2015 and 2050, McKinsey finds.

A series of issues that initially centered on the US Section 201 case, the US v China trade, China’s 531 New Deal and India’s trade tariffs, combined to slice around US$3 billion from the total global corporate funding into the solar sector in 2018, according to Mercom Capital Group.

The UK government has confirmed that a key policy for rooftop solar will end in the spring.

Solar PV is “charging ahead” across the world as it outpaces other renewables, but far more significant action is required if a climate crisis is to be averted, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.