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As the renewable energy sector matures, policies must be adapted to reflect changing market conditions. With the increasing use of auctions, policy makers seek to procure renewables-based electricity at the lowest price and also fulfil socio-economic objectives.

Japan’s electric utility KEPCO prolongs a trial project with Australia’s peer-to-peer energy trading company Power Ledger. The project is meant for tracking RECs and ptp trading power generated by solar plants.

This week on The Energy Gang: The economics of oil are beginning to be challenged by EVs paired with wind and solar.

Maxeon Solar Technologies takes legal action against REC Solar Holdings and Hanwha for patent infringement, protecting their innovative solar cell technology.

RWE AG partners with WhiteRock Renewables to boost US renewable energy projects, aiming for 30% global green capacity by 2030.

Scientists in Australia took a close consider the long-term efficiency of passivation layers in silicon solar cells, as well as found a surprising procedure of degradation and regrowth at the office within the product. The outcomes could have ramifications on the procedures used in industrial scale solar cell manufacturing.

Athens-based policy group The Green Tank labelled Greece’s decision “historic” while Europe Beyond Coal, an alliance of civil society groups working to make Europe coal free by 2030 said Hungary should target a more ambitious 2025 phase-out.

The Chinese-Canadian solar producer reported a 41% year-over-year rise in complete component deliveries to 2.2 GW in the initial quarter. Profits grew by 70% to $826 million, while internet earnings boosted dramatically from $17.2 million to $110.6 million.

Swiss renewable resource manufacturer and trader Axpo Holding AG on Monday said it has actually acquired a battery and solar project in Sweden from project designer SENS (Sustainable Energy Solutions Sweden) in a bargain of concealed industrial terms.

Shalom College is planning to expand its campus with the introduction of a collaborative learning building and the largest school solar farm in Queensland.

Yingli Energy (China) has supplied 117MW of its N-type PANDA bifacial modules to the biggest solar project in Oman. JA Solar has provided 54MW of modules wherefore it states is Hungary's "biggest PV power plant", the 100MW Kaposvar project.

Delays and cancellation to connecting projects to the grid are likely to make the Unites States microgrid market to constrict by 17 percent.

Recent investments into 11 GW of new coal generation capacity may result in reduced operating cashflows of $71 billion. That will occur, according to a report from the Carbon Tracker Institute, because solar and wind will become cheaper than coal in Japan by 2025 at the latest, despite high renewable energy costs at present.

In the run up to our Greenwashing vs. verifiable sustainability webinar, the CEO of pv magazine’s UP initiative partner SMA Solar Technology, Jürgen Reinert, talks about what the inverter manufacturer is doing to prove its sustainability credentials.

8 contracts cover projects in Europe as well as the Americas