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Just days after Daimler announced that it would halt production of its in-house battery cells and instead use LG Chem cells for its electric and hybrid vehicle batteries as well as for stationary storage solutions, the South Korean chemical giant said it would collaborate with another major German player on industrial battery storage systems.

While the country’s solar PV tariff is very good, a separate renewable energy production law allocated an extremely low quota for PV plants, including 6 MW for ground-mounted installations and 4 MW for rooftop, by 2020.

Mondragon plans to increase the development of new products in the Gorosabel range while offering technical support and repair services to the equipments already installed around the world.

Interview: On Monday the Meyer Burger Group and the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) inaugurated their Swiss-Inno pilot line for heterojunction technology (HJT) in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Christophe Ballif, head of the CSEM’s PV-center, will lead research efforts on the line, representing the culmination of a decade’s research into the technology in the Swiss town. Ballif spoke to pv magazine about the project.

According to the deal, the companies will share market channels and jointly develop products.

Qi Lin, president of Trina’s PV Systems Business Unit, says the Shamsuna project offers “valuable first-hand experience in operating a solar system in a desert environment.”

The countries have signed four letters of intent aimed at cooperating on renewable and nuclear energy and lithium production.

The deal will see SPI Solar purchase a raft of solar PV projects from TBEA Sunoasis across a number of Chinese provinces.

The lithium ion battery manufacturer plans to acquire a 500 MWh-capacity manufacturing plant for the production of lithium ion electrodes and other products.

The solar subsidiary of NRG Energy is set to open two new offices in the state, creating 100 new jobs as it augments its West Coast operation.