The ADB and two Western banks are financing the 35 MW Spectra Solar Project in Manikgonj, Bangladesh, 85 kilometers west of the capital Dhaka. Evides Waterbedrijf has commissioned a 1.62 floating solar installation at a reservoir near Kralingen, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Neoen is developing a 30 MW solar 30 MWh battery storage system, Yllikkala Power Reserve One, in the Finnish province of South Karelia. Voltalia is developing two solar plants totalling 61 MW in southern France. A PPA has been signed with Auchan and the plants will be commissioned in 2021-2022. In the UK, South Somerset District Council’s 25 MW battery storage project near Taunton has come online; Opium Power was the project manager, and BYD Europe BV…