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This week's segment mainly focuses on career moves in the US - featuring some of the nation's biggest energy players, including SunPower, NEXTracker and the SEIA. There is also news from key energy agencies including the IEA, FERC and the New York PSC.

Floridian utility Gulf Power has proposed to increase its power rates for customers by implementing a mandatory demand charge.

The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) has adopted new changes to state requirements to make it easier for consumers to go solar.

Three lawmakers in Massachusetts have proposed a bill for the state to rely completely on renewable energy resources by 2035.

Xcel Energy has commissioned one of the largest solar installations in Minnesota – the 62.25MW Marshall Solar Project.

Canadian Asset Management firm Brookfield has entered into exclusivity talks with the SunEdison yieldcos to discuss a potential buyout, according to a new regulatory filing.

BayWa r.e., a subsidiary of Munich-based BayWa, has sold two North Carolina solar facilities totalling 47MW to PSEG Solar for US$74.6 million.

San Diego, California-based residential solar company OneRoof continues to wind down US operations, this time with a default under its head office lease.

Former Texas governor Rick Perry, secretary of energy nominee to head the very department he suggested should be scrapped, said in his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday that he regretted making that recommendation.

As Donald Trump officially becomes the 45th president of the United States today, the solar industry remains quietly confident that any momentum gained so far will continue, even under the fossil-fuel promoting, climate change-denying Republican.