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Major power firm EnergyAustralia has confirmed it will soon sign power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 500MW of wind and solar projects across eastern Australia, in contracts worth AU$1.5 billion (US$1.12 billion).

Solar tracking manufacturer NEXTracker has unveiled a storage solution paired with its PV tracking infrastructure.

France-based investment firm Meridiam has completed financing of its second 30MW solar PV plant in Senegal.

Major global food company Nestle Group has agreed to have a rooftop solar system installed at one of its facilities in China by Goldman Sachs-backed rooftop PV specialist Asia Clean Capital (ACC).

Coronal Energy announced Tuesday that it intends to ramp up the number of solar projects it will acquire in 2017 and 2018.

Residential solar companies Vision Solar and Zing Solar announced a merger on Tuesday that will create a new combined entity — ION Solar.

Google has announced that it will reach 100% renewable energy across its global operations including data centres and offices within 2017.

Two companies are constructing a 1MW solar PV plant in Thailand using various combinations of technologies in order to set up a learning centre and advisory board to help solar developers across the Southeast Asia region.

Scatec Solar will make its first foray into the Brazilian market with a group of four projects totalling 150MW.

SunSystem Technology (SST) and Enphase Energy announced Monday that SunSystem has acquired the residential operations & maintenance (O&M) field services division of Next Phase Solar from Enphase — with both companies also agreeing to a partnership in which SST will serve as Enphase’s primary residential O&M service provider.