Asia & Oceania

The government of the Australian Capital Territory has announced an initiative to fund the adoption of rooftop solar PV within its borders.

French petroleum major TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with fellow fossil fuel company Petronas to develop a 100MW solar farm in Queensland, Australia.

India’s state-owned company National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha to develop at least 1GW of renewable energy across the Odisha state, in India.

The International Renewable Energy Agency has called for the world to add 551GW of solar capacity per year by 2030.

The National Energy Administration of China has unveiled that the country's newly added PV capacity in the first five months of 2023 was 61.2GW.

Polysilicon material prices have experienced a further decline recently, with the price of mono popcorn reaching a new low of RMB60/kg (US$8.3/kg).

Grounding issues and damaged modules are the most common safety problems among rooftop solar projects, according to Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

Chinese solar company Huasun has launched its latest series of N-type silicon-based heterojunction solar cells.

Singaporean Renewables company Nexif Ratch Energy has completed a financial close and begun construction of a 74MWp ground-mounted solar PV project in the Philippines.

Saudi energy provider ACWA Power has signed an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract with China Energy Group Corporation (CEEC) for a 1.4GW solar project in Uzbekistan.