Ho Chi Minh City-based conglomerate TTC Corp plans to start constructing three solar projects, totalling 150MW of capacity, in Vietnam in the first half of next year.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and India-based Yes Bank are supporting Indian solar and wind projects with a new US$400 million co-financing initiative.
Mumbai-based EPC firm Oriano Solar has completed two 20MW solar PV plants for First Solar in the state of Karnataka, in Gadag and Belagavi districts respectively.
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued an expression of interest (EOI) for the setting up of 20GW of vertically-integrated solar PV manufacturing capacity in India over the next three years, in an unclear and poorly worded release.
US-based vertically integrated manufacturer First Solar is to supply thin-film modules to a 100MW(AC) solar project developed by Zorlu Enerji in Pakistan.
Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has reached 1GW of solar capacity investments across 20 large-scale projects since 2013 with a total investment of AU$898 million (US$689 million).
Hospitals, schools and railways in South Australia will be powered by an electricity retailer started up by billionaire steel trader Sanjeev Gupta, following the signing of an agreement between the state government and Gupta’s SIMEC ZEN Energy.
