Asia & Oceania

New South Wales (NSW) has released a Data Centre Policy Framework that ties streamlined planning approval for new data centres to commitments on renewable energy, water use and cost recovery, becoming the first state to translate Australia's national data centre policy direction into detailed operating rules.

Mainstream Renewable Power’s 50MW C&I Ilikwa PV Facility in South Africa’s Free State province has reached commercial operation.

Recurrent Energy has started commercial operations at its 150MW Carwarp Energy park in Victoria, Australia, backed by a power purchase agreement with tech giant Microsoft.

Websol has begun a brownfield upgrade of a 600MW mono PERC cell manufacturing line to TOPCon, increasing its total cell capacity to 1.35GW.

Researchers in Australia have heralded a potential breakthrough in recovering valuable silver from decommissioned PV modules.

Chinese solar tracker manufacturer Arctech has secured 425MW of utility-scale solar tracker projects across Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Purvah Green Power has agreed to acquire six SPVs holding a combined 1.4GW of operational renewable energy capacity from ReNew Solar Power.

India’s SECI awarded 1GW to seven bidders under its RTC-TM tender, with Juniper securing the largest allocation.

Levanta Renewables has started construction at its Barotac Viejo solar-plus-storage project in the Philippines.

Eight leading Chinese polysilicon producers have signed a joint initiative pledging unified action on standardised pricing, energy conservation, carbon reduction and outdated capacity phase-out.