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Queensland will certainly invest AU$ 2 billion (US$ 1.55 billion) on renewables and hydrogen jobs to sustain the Australian state's financial recovery from COVID-19 as well as aid it provide on its 50% clean energy target by 2030.

A handful of European states have moved to bankroll various World Bank clean energy initiatives, with US$100 million of French and Dutch money set to back PV in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Chinese solar manufacturer today admitted it is in talks with its lenders and strategic investors about a break up of the company after its 2018 annual accounts revealed an apparently unserviceable debt pile. Any strategic investor is likely to constitute a Chinese state-backed bail-out.

Trina Solar has reviewed four to five projects and is now eyeing assets of 50-150MW size in two Indian states. The projects will be completed with Trina modules and the Chinese firm will also provide competitive long-term project financing to the developer

A new generation of low-cost, lasting and effective solar cells is a step better, thanks to scientists at The University of Queensland.

OPDEnergy has announced the completion of construction work on its new solar PV plant Zafra, located in Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville), Spain

A solar project part of a landmark subsidy-free series in Spain has found a new owner, a major insurance group set to buy the plant as it nears commissioning.

French water management agency Société du Canal de Provence (SCP) is planning an innovative floating project to test its combination with a solar tracking system. The 250 kW project was awarded a fixed tariff in a special tender for innovative PV projects held by The French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) in February 2018. The plant will be deployed on a water surface managed by SCP in Southern France.

Scientists from Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have actually utilized molybdenum oxide as the hole-selective call in an heterojuction silicon cell. The researchers declare the substance can take on conventional get in touches with in spite of a reduced degree of optimization.

The Ministry for the Ecological and also Inclusive Transition's long-lasting public auction was arranged by grid driver RTE under the French ability purchase system. Storage space made up 253 MW of the ability designated in the public auction, which was open to all decarbonizing innovations.

The neighborhood of Châteauneuf-du-Rhône, in the French division of Drôme, has actually signified its authorization of a floating PV project sent by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône which still calls for a license from the preparation authorities.

Portugal's very first floating solar auction closed with a world record-low price, with utilities EDP and also Endesa among the winning bidders, the nation's environment ministry has actually announced.

Solar projects worth 166MW of capacity have actually won out in Brazil's most current renewables auction, power regulatory authority EPE has actually verified.

A solar-cell module that mitigates cell-to-module losses has actually been established by KAUST researchers complying with a rethink of the module's optical design as well as how it must be stacked.

Alliant Energy, a Wisconsin public utility, has actually completed its initial utility-scale solar project in the state. The 50-MW Bear Creek Solar Project in Richland County is currently operational and will certainly create enough electricity to power approximately 13,000 homes.