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Minnesota authorities have approved a plan submitted by Xcel Energy to expand the capacity of its Sherco Solar project to 710MW.

Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies has acquired selected assets from California-headquartered solar company Complete Solaria.

US energy company Southern Power has acquired the 200MW Millers Branch solar farm in the US state of Texas from EDF Renewables.

Enfinity Global has acquired 546MW of solar assets under development in the US state of Colorado from CS Energy.

US thin-film cadmium telluride (CadTel) solar PV manufacturer First Solar has broken ground on a new, 3.5GW fully integrated manufacturing plant in Iberia Parish, Louisiana.

California’s transmission and distribution grid networks will need to expand fourfold and tenfold, respectively, to meet net zero targets.

Enel North America has signed a power purchase agreement with Boston Properties, which will acquire power from its Estonian solar project.

US solar developer Recurrent Energy has closed financing for its upcoming 134MW Liberty solar project in the US state of Texas.

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.