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Welcome to the PV Tech Best of the Week roundup, covering the week’s biggest stories from the global solar PV industry.

Alight has acquired a portfolio of 40 utility-scale solar projects in southern Sweden from Soltech Energy Solutions.

This week's PV Chart of the Week looks at the breakdown in European inverter manufacturing production, capacity and supply until 2027.

X-Elio has started commercial operations at the 368MW Lorca Solar project in Spain, its largest in the country.

The Solar Markt Group has started commercial operations at the Hódmezővásárhely facility, the largest hybrid power plant in Hungary.

The German government has awarded contracts to 480MW worth of solar-plus-storage capacity in its latest public "innovation" tender.

Elgin has acquired the Blackhall Solar Farm in County Meath, in the Republic of Ireland, from German energy supplier GP Joule.

PV Tech Research writes about the PV inverter technological shift between string and central inverters across the markets.

UK renewables developer Low Carbon has unveiled plans for a 500MW solar PV project in the county of Oxfordshire.

The replacement of decommissioned solar projects will account for 23% of new capacity additions by the 2040s, according to Wood Mackenzie.