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Scatec Solar has launched commercial operations on the third of six planned 65 MW photovoltaic installations that it is constructing in Egypt\u2019s 1.8 GW Benban solar park, Renewables Now reports. This comes just a week after the Norwegian company announced that commercial operations on the second plant had been launched. 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