Terabase has deployed its automated utility-scale solar development system for the first time, with 17 MW installed at the 225 MW White Wing Ranch Project in the US state of Arizona. Among other things the system “completely eliminated manual lifting of steel tubes and solar panels for the first time in the industry.” A Kesterite photovoltaic cell has achieved 12.01% efficiency at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed with China’s National PV Industry Metrology and Testing Center (NPVM). ‘Flexible Sparkle Photovoltaics’ (柔烁光电) is the latest entry on our list of several dozen Chinese perovskite startups which don’t have an official English name or easy to find website. The company has announced a $28 million investment into a 10 MW pilot…