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Thin-film solar panel manufacturer First Solar today announced the start of production at its new PV module manufacturing facility in Lake Township, Ohio — a few miles from its flagship 600-MW factory in Perrysburg, Ohio. With the completed addition, First Solar has a total annualized production capacity of 1.9 GW in the United States. The company also manufactures panels in Malaysia and Vietnam.

Honduras switched on the 50-MW Patuca solar plant—its first publicly owned array—adding daytime capacity that reduces diesel reliance and stabilises the grid.

Mauritania inked its first independent power producer contract—a USD 300m, 60-MW solar-wind hybrid with Iwa Green Energy—to strengthen supply and cut fuel imports.

Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure, in partnership with Saturn Power Inc and Ocean Man First Nation, will build a 100-MW solar farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, marking the beginning of a series of solar projects in the region.

LSE-listed investment company NextEnergy Solar Fund has finished the construction of the first unsubsidized solar project in Great Britain.

Enel Green Power hit a number of milestones as it switched on a large-scale solar plant in Mexico, taking its solar portfolio in the country past the 1.3GW mark.

In 2016 France turned a one-kilometer stretch of roadway into the world’s first solar road. And three years later, the trial project has turned out to be an absolute disaster, French newspaper Le Monde reports.

United States solar panels maker First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) revealed today that it has authorized a framework contract with Minneapolis-based developer National Grid Renewables for the supply of 2 GW DC of thin-film PV modules.

AES Dominicana has broken ground on a 58MW solar plant in the Dominican Republic, which is now being built by Spain's TSK Electricidad y Electronica.

Global independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix Power Holdings Ltd has actually obtained a 262-MWp solar PV portfolio in Portugal, making its entrance into the marketplace.

The wind power generator also has a 930 MW solar portfolio but did not take big steps in unsubsidized PV during the first six months of the year.

Chinese producer Risen Energy will provide Malaysia's Tokai Engineering with 20 MW of its brand-new panels, revealed in December. Increased asserts its items can help in reducing balance-of-system project prices by 9.6% as well as the levelized expense of power by 6%.

The federal government of Canada today announced a CAD-15.5-million (USD 12m/EUR 11.8 m) investment in a solar-plus-storage project in the Yukon, the most northwestern area of the country.

The solar power project has actually been functional because June and also it has a green energy generation capacity of 800 MW. It will certainly assist supply Qatar's 10 per cent of power needs and avoid 26 million tons of co2 exhaust.

Sunco Capital has actually safeguarded a handle oil significant Shell. The power will certainly be given by 2 solar parks Sunco is developing near Ciudad Real, in southerly Spain.