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Chinese solar manufacturers LONGi and Jinko Solar, along with Indian PV manufacturer Waaree Energies, have been named in a series of patent disputes filed in China and the US.

The announcement comes just days after the Trump administration announced plans for a 25% tariff on steel and aluminium imports.

Damaging hailstorms can occur frequently across states like Texas and Illinois which have become major utility-scale solar markets.

The projects will be developed by Sun Tribe Development and ENGIE across the US states of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.

US technology giant Microsoft has signed virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for 389MW of solar capacity with EDP Renewables.

The US solar industry was previously sanguine about Trump's initial tariffs, though the impacts of these metal tariffs are unclear.

A broad coalition of US energy companies and groups have called for clean energy tax credit support in the US, amidst Trump's recent executive orders.

Factors including import duties and changing tax rates in China have driven up US module prices, according to CEA's latest pricing report.

Japanese industrial electric and automation technology company Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC) has begun operations at its inverter manufacturing plant in Texas, US.

Former Borrego Solar president of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) Brian Barker has launched a new EPC, dubbed Aquila Energy.