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The Bank of Montreal (BMO) has donated US$3 million to California-headquartered non-profit GRID Alternatives to support the provision of low-to-no cost solar PV, storage and clean mobility programmes to “underserved families” in the Western US.

Scout Clean Energy has signed a power purchase agreement with household product manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive.

Solar inverter producer SolarEdge has unveiled a new PV energy optimisation software system aimed at business owners and the corporate & industrial (C&I) solar sector.

Sungrow has unveiled its latest floating solar system, which it has said is “suitable for the North American market”.

PV Hardware has announced that it expects to finish construction at its tracker manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas by October.

The US DFC has announced plans to invest US$425 million into TP Solar, to build a 4.3GW solar cell and module manufacturing plant in India.

Matrix Renewables and rPlus Energies have started construction at the Pleasant Valley solar project in the US state of Idaho.

OMCO Solar has opened its sixth manufacturing facility in the US, and will provide backrails for First Solar’s new Series 7 modules.

Longroad Energy has extended a module supply agreement with First Solar, and now expects to acquire an additional 2GW of First Solar modules.

As the world's population distribution changes, so too does its energy needs. One solution could be the emerging field of urban agrivoltaics.