Asia & Oceania

Octopus Australia has completed financial close and started construction on its 80MW Fulham solar-plus-storage project in Victoria.

PowerChina has halted a 51GW centralised module procurement tender, the largest in the country’s history, citing new pricing policies.

British perovskite solar company Oxford PV and Chinese solar manufacturer Trinasolar have entered into a patent licensing agreement for perovskite-based PV technologies.

India has added 11.6GW and 25.3GW of annual nameplate capacity in 2024 for solar cells and PV modules, respectively.

The State Electricity Commission (SEC), a state-owned energy company in Victoria, Australia, has confirmed that construction has started on the 119MW SEC Renewable Energy Park.

Indian solar manufacturer Inox Solar has secured a land agreement with the Odisha government to build a solar cell and module assembly plant.

The world’s cumulative installed solar generation capacity has doubled between 2022 and 2024, to reach over 2,000TWh, according to Ember.

US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has denied Maxeon’s protests made against its detention of the company’s modules brought into the US.

JinkoSolar is set to supply its TOPCon solar PV technology for a 10GW green hydrogen production site in the Northern Territory, Australia.

A 108MW solar-plus-storage project being pursued by Green Gold Energy in South Australia has been submitted to Australia's EPBC Act.