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Freyr has completed the acquisition of Trina Solar’s Texas solar manufacturing assets, first announced in November.

New York state has issued its final siting permit for AES’ 125MW Somerset solar project, to be built on former industrial land.

The US general election and its aftermath, along with struggles from Western inverter manufacturers have dominated Q4 news in 2024.

PV Tech looks back at Q2 2024, where a number of critical pieces of US legislation had an impact on the country’s solar sector.

The company uses direct “gas-to-wafer” epitaxial technology to produce its solar wafers which achieved 24.4% efficiency on HJT cells.

US utility Alliant Energy has completed construction at two solar projects in the US state of Iowa with a combined capacity of 200MW.

The sites are expected to generate over 120MW of solar power, Nexamp said, across the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and Minnesota.

The deal will cover power generated at two DESRI facilities in the US, a 250MW project in Missouri and a 150MW project in Texas.

Tax credit transference measures introduced under the Inflation Reduction Act have led to billions of dollars of new investment in solar and other clean energy projects. Alfred Johnson and Katie Bays look at some of the risk mitigation and due diligence best practices that can reduce the complexity and cost of tax credit transactions.

NuVision Solar, a new US-based solar manufacturer, has been formed and aims to build a heterojunction (HJT) solar cell and module assembly plant in the US.