Here is a look at some of this week’s renewable energy news, including the startup of a solar module manufacturing facility with an annual 2-gigawatt capacity.

Bryan Sheffield, managing partner of Formentera Partners and founder of Parsley Energy, discussed E&P capital, M&A barriers and how longer laterals could spur a “growth mode” at Hart Energy’s Energy Capital Conference.

Crescent Energy CEO discusses the expanding gravitational pull of Crescent after acquiring SilverBow and others.

Recently unconstrained by new rail capacity, operators are now putting laterals into the oily, western side of this long-producing basin that comes with little associated gas and little water, making it compete with the Permian Basin.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has closed on its $7.4 billion takeover of Southwestern Energy Co. to create Expand Energy.