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Investment firm KKR has actually reached an agreement to acquire French renewables programmer Albioma.

The facility was built with heterojunction modules and placing systems supplied by German firms Luxor Solar and Next2Sun, specifically. The range in between the panel rows ranges from 8 to 10 meters and also the farming surface within the rows will be made use of by neighborhood livestock farmers as pasture.

Researchers in Switzerland made substantial progress with a method to perovskite-silicon tandem cell layout that they state might become integrated right into existing silicon PV production. They have announced the success of a 29.2% cell efficiency-- not far from the total record for tandem cells, and confirmed by Germany's Fraunhofer ISE.

Spanish power and also gas utility Naturgy Energy Group SA (BME: NTGY) announced on Thursday that it has actually broken ground on a 50-MW solar PV farm in Spain's area of Extremadura.

The very first large-scale ground mounted solar farm to supply electricity to the Irish grid has actually been opened near Ashford in Co Wicklow as well as is currently operational.

Heterojunction cell and also module supplier Meyer Burger has actually started development of a brand-new module facility with an additional 400MW in Germany to cater for European demand.

Keele University has officially opened its new Low Carbon Energy Generation park, consisting of 12,500 solar panels in addition to 2 wind generators.

EStor-Lux, Belgium's battery energy storage system (BESS) at 10MW/20MWh, was formally ushered in on Tuesday (26 April).

Zenobe scheme will certainly be the very first to connect straight to the country's transmission system

Sutton Bridge in South Holland district of Lincolnshire is due online by late 2022

MET Groupis acquiring six projects in Italy and also Spain increasing its portfolio to 714MW

Beginning of building for ingenious mix of 26,500 modules and also battery storage space Solar plant to run from 2022 up until completion of Lake Inde

German carmaker Volkswagen AG (ETR: VOW) will power its electric car factory in the eastern city of Zwickau with electricity from a nearby 5.3-MW solar plant that will certainly be commissioned by solar developer Enerparc AG in the coming weeks.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt revealed Norway's membership of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) during her official check out to India, a statement by the nation's Embassy here said on Tuesday.