Chinese solar manufacturer Tongwei has planned to invest RMB20 billion (US$2.7 billion) in its Leshan project, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, to expand ingot pulling, slicing and cell production capacity, so as to accelerate the establishment of “China’s Green Silicon Valley”.
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) has published an updated model rules that aims to accelerate and facilitate the interconnection of distributed resources to the grid.
The US Department of Commerce has found that five Chinese solar PV manufacturers have been circumventing its import tariffs by relocating minor portions of their supply chains to Southeast Asia.
US utility Avangrid – a subsidiary of energy multinational Iberdrola – will build its first solar PV project in California, building on the back of an existing wind farm fleet of over 500MW in the state.
Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has announced that it had shipped over 1GW of solar modules to the Middle East distribution solar market by the second quarter of 2023.
Q2 2023 was one of the lowest periods for financial commitments to future renewable energy generation projects in Australia since 2017, according to trade body the Clean Energy Council (CEC).
Continuing a downward trend of capacity additions, India has added 1.7GW of solar capacity in the second quarter of 2023, according to consultancy Mercom India Research.