The emirati developer behind the nation’s first private utility scale solar project cited the financial certainty offered by the host government under its national development plan.

The Polish perovskite solar cell specialist claims to be the first company in the world to have commissioned commercial production of the technology.

The solar facility is intended at reducing the country’s dependency on hydropower, especially during drought periods.

French grid operator RTE has outlined six scenarios on how France’s energy system may achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. In the most optimistic one, solar is expected to reach a cumulative capacity of 208 GW.

Sun’Agri, REM Tec, Kilowattsol and Altergie Développement et Râcines have announced the creation of France Agrivoltaisme, the world’s first association for the promotion of agrivoltaics.

France’s Solar Cloth has announced that Renault Trucks has listed it as a supplier for its factories.

Arkolia has coupled a biogas purification plant in France with a 100 kW rooftop solar array.

French panel manufacturers Systovi and Voltec Solar are making their first investments in their respective factories. They plan to reach a combined annual production capacity of 1 GW.

French start-up Ekwateur is offering a solar kit consisting of a 330 W panel, a micro-inverter, a metallic structure, a monitoring sensor, and a few cables.

The feed-in tariff granted reduces each quarter, in line with how much solar capacity was installed in the previous three-month period.