Asia & Oceania

Silicon Module Super League (SMSL) member JinkoSolar has supplied 275.4MW of high efficiency modules to a solar project in South Australia owned by a joint venture between Enel Green Power and Dutch Infrastructure Fund.

India has given the option to solar power procurers to extend the timelines for land acquisition, financial close and PV project commissioning, which should help developers working on interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected plants.

Wind and solar could provide half of the world’s energy generation by 2050 on the back of continually declining technology costs, particularly in battery energy storage, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

Increasingly, solar energy and behind-the-meter battery storage assets are being deployed on an ‘as-a-service’ basis and system integrator Younicos has decided to replicate the strategy for microgrids.

The world installed 99.1GW of solar in 2017 and is expected to breach the 100GW level this year, according to SolarPower Europe global report.

Thailand’s B.Grimm Power has signed a cooperation agreement with Vietnam’s Xuan Cau to develop the largest solar PV project in Southeast Asia, standing at 420MW capacity in Tay Ninh, southwest Vietnam.

SolarEdge is seeking damages, an injunction and a recall of products it claims have been built using its intellectual property.

India announces new benchmark costs for off-grid, rooftop PV, SunEQ Namibia and DBN reach financial close on 6.5MW solar project in Namibia, Pöyry awarded EPC contract for 16MW Brazil project

The World Bank has committed funding to support 400MW of solar energy projects in the Sindh Province of Pakistan.

Lightsource BP has completed its first utility-scale solar farm in India after bringing online a 60MW project in Maharashtra, having won the contract through a competitive 450MW tender process completed in September 2016.