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A new loan facility that will help Australian businesses invest in solar, battery storage, energy efficient technologies and electric vehicles has been launched by Westpac Bank in conjunction with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Survey of 2,400 Australians conducted on behalf of a coalition of environmental groups finds that 64% of voters would back a party with pro-renewable policies in the forthcoming federal election.

Definitive conditions will be announced in June and the solicitation will be held in September. The auction is intended to produce prices under US$100/MWh and investments of US$2 billion. The government is in negotiations with the World Bank for an investment guarantee.

The continent’s tracker market grew 135% last year, to reach 5.5 GW of shipments.

The Tokyo-based renewable energy company currently has 190 MW of PV capacity installed, and intends to complete a series of megasolar projects in the country.

The Tokyo-based renewable energy company currently has 190 MW of PV capacity installed, and intends to complete a series of megasolar projects in the country.

Sunday once again a record-breaker for Germany’s renewable energy sector, with wind and solar contributing to 45.5 GW of renewable capacity to meet demand of 45.8 GW.

The funding will be used to support a variety of business models

The draft policy changes contemplate easier transactions for PV projects up to 10 kW, as well as net metering aggregation and sharing.

The Taiwanese PV maker squeezed out narrow positive margins, as its second quarter of profitability following the imposition of U.S. import duties.