India updates quality control order, MNRE to develop construction standards for rooftop and off-grid PV, India nears 22GW solar capacity, Solar park developer rules updated.
Energy Networks Australia (ENA) has pushed for a more consistent approach to grid connections of solar PV and battery storage by issuing a set of guidelines.
No sooner than all of the huge exhibition stands at SNEC 2018 were dismantled last Thursday, China’s regulatory organisations overseeing the solar industry, instigated new policies Friday that could have a similar effect on the utility-scale and distributed generation (DG) markets in the country.
A total of 17 European associations have called on policymakers to reintroduce the debate around priority dispatch and balancing responsibility for small-scale renewable installations, while ten energy intensive heavyweights want a framework on C&I self-consumption of renewables.
Hanwha Q CELLS became the latest company to make a gigawatt-scale manufacturing commitment in the States but Trump has some way to go to make US solar manufacturing great again.
Indian solar developer Azure Power has secured US$135 million in debt financing for 200MW of rooftop PV projects across India from a consortium of development finance institutions.
Neoen closes finance for 51MW Jamaica solar park, Enel starts production at Australia’s largest Solar PV Project, Vikram Solar commissions 10MW solar project in Madhya Pradesh.
Indian EPC firm Sterling and Wilson has won its first large-scale hybrid and energy storage turnkey EPC contract order in Western Africa, including what it believes to be both the largest battery storage project and single battery installation in the whole continent.
The sanctioning of a tendering scheme for 2.5GW of hybrid wind and solar capacity in India, to be allocated through a transparent bidding process, has been branded as “the right step”, by consultancy firm Bridge to India.
Germany-based company ib vogt has reached financial close over a €41 million debt facility for a 54.5MW solar plant in the Netherlands, said to be the country’s largest.
