Asia & Oceania

UK BESS developer Harmony Energy has established a joint venture with New Zealand energy group Clarus' subsidiary First Renewables to develop a 200MWac solar project.

Recurrent Energy, the solar project development subsidiary of global solar manufacturer Canadian Solar, has secured a US$500 million equity investment from Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has given approval to Green Infra Wind Energy to build a 450MW hybrid solar-plus-wind project.

Electricity generation from low-emission sources such as solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear will cover all global demand growth to 2026.

Rio Tinto has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with European Energy to buy all of the power at the latter’s Upper Calliope solar farm.

Solar PV accounted for 55.8% of the total power generation capacity added to the Indian grid in 2023, including fossil fuel additions which rose considerably over the year in response to growing electricity demand.

The growth of global annual solar PV installations will start to slow this year, including the US, according to Woodmac.

PV Tech spoke with Jinko’s Victor Wei and Wally Zang, Senior IR Director and Technical Service Centre  General Manager respectively, about the company’s investment in TOPCon, its fully vertically integrated plant currently being built in China’s Shanxi province and how it is looking at module products for deployment in offshore solar projects subject to hail conditions.

Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar has launched a new n-type industrial tunnel oxide passivated contacts (i-TOPCon) module designed for commercial and industrial rooftops.

Solarpack has signed a 25-year PPA to sell power generated at its upcoming 410MW Gorbea solar project to SECI.