Asia & Oceania

On Wednesday (17 July), the Tasmanian government in Australia removed a ‘speed limit’ measure that has prevented state-owned utility Hydro Tasmania from developing large-scale renewable energy projects, such as solar, without a "cumbersome" Parliamentary process.

Winning bids as low as INR3.41/kWh have been registered in a tender for solar PV paired with battery storage hosted by the SECI.

Enel Green Power Australia has acquired a 1GW solar-plus-storage project in the Central-West Orana REZ in New South Wales from RES Group.

Total global corporate funding for solar on the other hand is down year-on-year, according to Mercom Capital Group.

Suntech's chairman Wu Fei on why his company has the right attributes to weather the latest PV industry reshuffle.

Vietnam has planned to buy excess electricity generated by residential and commercial rooftop solar modules.

Chinese solar manufacturing giant JinkoSolar will build a 10GW n-type solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia.

North America is expected to be the major market for solar trackers in the upcoming years driven by increased installations in the US.

Sun Cable has obtained its principal environmental approval its Australia-Asia PowerLink interconnector, set to unlock 20GW of solar.

Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) has been nominated by the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) to be the solar module and product listing body under the small-scale renewable energy scheme (SRES).