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Swedish investor EQT Partners AB (STO:EQT) has agreed to acquire US power and digital infrastructure developer Copia Power, which is focused on gigawatt-scale campuses that include solar, energy storage, thermal and digital grid-connected projects.

Spain's private research centre Instituto Tecnologico de la Energia (ITE) said it has finalised a research project that developed new proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser electrodes and digital tools in an effort to prevent premature equipment degradation and reduce the cost of green hydrogen production.

The Technical University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) and aviation specialist engineering firm Kasaero have been granted nearly EUR 2 million (USD 2.28m) in funding from Germany’s economy ministry to develop a modular hydrogen-electric propulsion system for light aircraft.

US flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels maker Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:ASTI) said that its space grade thin-film PV products showed no damage and zero loss of power during preliminary atomic oxygen exposure testing.

Irish clean energy developer Lumcloon Energy has partnered with South Korea's state-controlled utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) to develop a pilot supercapacitor energy storage project in central Ireland, the companies said on Wednesday.

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) has developed a combined photovoltaic/electrolysis module that produces hydrogen directly from solar energy.