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United States utilities group Duke Energy Corp (NYSE: DUK) stated today it has actually commenced building of a 22.6-MW solar power plant in Surry County, North Carolina.

Romanian power provider and distributor Electrica [BSE: EL] said that it will ask its investors to approve the establishment of a subsidiary though which it will certainly execute 400 MW renewable resource projects, with an extra 100 MW storage space capability.

Canadian electrical utility Hydro-Quebec on Monday inaugurated its first two solar energy plants, which with each other have a capacity of 9.5 MW.

Daqo New Energy Corp (NYSE: DQ) on Tuesday said it has actually completed the IPO registration process for its significant subsidiary Xinjiang Daqo New Energy, expecting the share issuance to be concluded within 4 weeks.

As a new member of photovoltaic family, antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) has the satisfactory bandgap of 1.7 eV, profiting the fabrication of the leading absorber layer of tandem solar cells. Because of an unique quasi-one-dimensional framework, it shows benefits of much less dangling bonds. Based upon these advantages, the openings defects upon the surface triggering the recombination of carriers could be minimized dramatically, which assists to resolve the photovoltaic problems in solar cells.

Leading solar inverter supplier FIMER has announced the launch of two new platforms for the utility-scale field-- a high-power multi-MPPT string inverter and a modular conversion service-- which are designed to cater for both decentralized and systematized applications covering 100 percent of utility applications.

The Head of state of Togo, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé inaugurated a 50MWp Solar Power Plant in the West African nation. The Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Solar Power Plant Project is being created by AMEA Power, Dubai and developed, set up, commissioned, and executed by Jakson Group from India. The West African Development Bank and Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) given concessional car loans for the project.

Recurrent Energy, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. announced yesterday that it has actually increased its energy storage footprint in the USA with a number of leading Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) got to be constructed in 2021 as well as 2022. These projects extend retrofits as-a-service, solar plus storage PPAs, and stand-alone storage tolling contracts.

Acciona, a multinational renewable energy conglomerate, has actually attached Spain's very first renewable storage plant using recycled batteries to the grid at the firm's speculative photovoltaic or pv park in Tudela (Navarre).

Greater than 100 organisations standing for a variety of clean energy sectors have actually contacted the Biden management prompting it to establish a ten-year extension of the financial investment tax debt (ITC), consisting of a direct pay alternative.

Senator Jon Ossoff has presented regulation that would establish a tax credit for US-based solar makers to help them much better compete with Chinese opponents.

Approximately 1.5 GW of new capability could be opened in the south as well as east of England by using solar, battery storage and wind for voltage control services.

NextEnergy Capital Group (NEC) has actually raised an added US$ 232 million for its global solar fund, as it targets PV projects in OECD countries such as the United States, Portugal, Spain, Chile as well as Italy.

Finnish utility Fortum has secured a deal to unload two solar projects in India totalling 500MW of capability to private equity firm Actis.

The Foresight Team's complete portfolio of lasting framework, including its UK solar assets, is being digitalised in a new agreement with Sennen.