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Spain to hold renewables auction this year

The Spanish government has introduced new rules to procure renewables via auctions. It will hold its third auction by the end of this year.

‘Disrupters’ tip Australia to host world’s biggest VPP in 2021

As Australia’s home battery market begins to catch up to its installed residential solar capacity, the opportunity for large-scale virtual power plants is verging on reality. Indeed, Solar Service Group’s new Solar + Battery Members’ Plan could see Australia host the world’s largest virtual power plant next year.

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Terawatt scale by 2050

In a new paper published in the journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, renowned PV scientist Pierre Verlinden examines the solar industry’s trajectory towards the 70 TW of installed capacity that will be needed by 2050, as the best choice for meeting climate targets set out in the 2015 Paris agreement. Silver consumption and recycling, according to Verlinden, will be the biggest challenges in the years to come, as well as ensuring balanced growth and avoiding a major installation rush in the years close to 2050.

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Construction begins on 30 MW solar park in Burkina Faso

The solar park is being built by French developer GreenYellow and is expected to come online by mid-2021.

IRENA: Urban renewables infrastructure needs to be concentrated in fastest-growing cities

Only 1% of Africa’s utility scale solar projects are within 20km of city limits, according to a new report, despite the fact the continent is expected to have around a billion more city dwellers by mid century.

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Telecoms business secures 100 GWh of clean power with new procurement platform

Unnamed business was the launch customer for DNV GL’s Instatrust online PPA-matching platform. The corporate client’s request prompted offers of more than 800 GWh of renewable energy.

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Germany deployed 3.5 GW of solar in first nine months of 2020

New additions for September totaled 388 MW. Due to strong development in the first three quarters of the year, FITs for the November-January period will be lowered by 1.8%.

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Sudan wants to contract 500 MW of solar power

According to the country’s Ministry of Energy, an unspecified UAE solar company has committed to building several large scale PV plants across the country. These new projects would be granted a 20-year PPA and would be Sudan’s first solar parks.

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The weekend read: Something truly new

You can try to succeed by making a better version of your competitors’ product, or you can try to do something completely new. NexWafe has chosen the second path. It is developing plans to manufacture wafers for high-efficiency solar cells in Bitterfeld, Germany, that are produced more sustainably and at lower cost than any other products available today.

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Unsubsidized PV plant goes online in Portugal

Hyperion Renewables continues to expand its PV plant portfolio and is now working on green hydrogen production and distributed generation projects.

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