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¶ A massive solar farm the size of more than 175 football pitches is to go ahead on farmland in East Cambridgeshire, with the District council’s planning committee approval. The farm’s capacity will be nearly 39.5 MW, enough for 11,000 homes, and its energy will feed directly into the local power grid network. [Newmarket Journal]

Solar farm approved. SUS-150325-142109001

¶ The Clean Energy Finance Commission in Australia has reported that its recently launched solar financing program has attracted a substantial amount of interest; in fact it is enough to boost the country’s large-scale PV capacity 10-fold. The CEFC program will offer loans of AU$15 million and above, for projects over 10 MW. [CleanTechnica]

¶ The world could be powered almost entirely by clean, renewable energy sources in the space of a few decades, and two US engineers say they have figured out exactly how it…