Asia & Oceania

Danish developer European Energy has signed 30-year agreements with Traditional Owners covering three solar-plus-storage projects in Queensland, Australia, including the 1.1GW Upper Calliope solar PV plant.

Solar and battery storage projects have pushed Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) connection pipeline up 43% in a year to 80.9GW, overtaking the grid's existing 77GW of capacity for the first time.

New Zealand solar PV generator Lodestone Energy has started trading on the NZX Main Board after raising NZ$75 million (US$43 million).

China’s Ministry of Commerce is proposing to introduce export controls on key PV components, including polysilicon, wafers and cells.

JMK has released a report on curtailment of renewable energy in India, showing that solar PV curtailment reached 96.9GW in September.

The South Australian government has selected four solar and wind proposals totalling almost 13GW in the Whyalla West release area, west of the steelmaking city.

ACME Solar has signed a 300MW/1,200MWh PPA with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for a solar-plus-storage portfolio.

JinkoSolar's Tiger Neo 5.0, an all-black residential PV module, is built on its TOPCon-based Amorphous-Si Passivating Cell (TAC) technology.

Australia must find green iron customers beyond China as Chinese steel demand declines and iron ore export earnings fall, says IEEFA.

Atmos Renewables has acquired 126MWp of operating solar PV capacity in Victoria and Queensland from BayWa r.e., along with a late-stage wind and battery storage project in New South Wales, Australia.