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India’s government will stop the electronic reverse auctions of renewables projects in the country amid fears it is leading to “unhealthy competition”.

The sixth bidding round of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has opened for interested parties.

Alice Grundy explores the success of South Africa’s renewables auctions and the challenges that still remain for the development of PV in the country.

A banking consortium has signed a PLN864 million (€189 million/US$215 million) agreement to finance Polish developer R.Power Group’s 299MW portfolio of solar PV projects in Poland.

In recent years the solar industry has seen some of the largest and cheapest contracts awarded in the MENA region. But with concerns over component price and availability, what can the industry expect from the solar sector in the MENA region in the medium-term?

Shorter purchasing contracts with private companies could be a "lucrative" short-term source of income for Poland's solar market.

Prices of solar-plus-storage systems to be deployed on France’s island territories have fallen once again in the country’s latest auction, dipping below €100/MWh (US$122.75/MWh).

Investment in new solar capacity fell in the first half of 2020 by 12% year-on-year to US$54.7 billion as the COVID-19 pandemic hit both project financing and scheduled auctions.

Spain’s PV industry has welcomed government approval of a package of legislative measures aimed at speeding up the country’s transition to 100% renewables.

Inverter failures and the prevalence of auction-based mechanisms for large-scale solar projects are placing pressure on solar operations and maintenance (O&M) prices, a new report from Wood Mackenzie has found.