Asia & Oceania

The China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association announced that the average transaction price of M10 mono-silicon wafer has dropped by 6.96%.

India's solar module exports to the US and Europe will likely to peak in 2025 and experience a decline starting from 2026 as domestic manufacturing plants will be operational in these regions, according to a recent research from energy analyst JMK Reseach.

Trina Solar has signed a module supply agreement with the Citicore Renewable Energy Corporation to supply 700MW of modules to the company.

This week, module manufacturers around the world have announced new manufacturing facilities, and new records for their modules.

Trina Solar has signed an agreement with the MPower Group to supply modules and trackers for the latter’s 200MW solar portfolio in Australia.

Colorado-based mini-grid specialist Husk Power has secured more than US$100 million in equity and debt funding aimed to grow its community solar mini-grids in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

PV Tech Premium speaks to Gautam Solar, about its plans to double its module manufacturing capacity to 2GW by the end of this year.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has committed AU$358 million (US$227.8 million) to new projects during the year from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, while it has also assigned AU$41.5 million for ultra low cost solar, a new focus since last year.

Renewables are set to contribute 80% of new power capacity to 2030 in the stated policies scenario (STEPS), with solar PV alone accounting for more than half of it, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

City University of Hong Kong has announced an improvement of perovskite solar cells as a research team engineered a type of self-assembled monolayer and anchored it on a nickel oxide surface as a charge extraction layer.