India has announced plans for an unprecedented solar procurement regime that aims to tender 20GW in 2017/18, followed by another 30GW in each of the two following years, but analysts have described the policy as "completely unrealistic".
Cambodia’s national utility and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) hope to tender out the first stage of their 100MW solar park programme in June 2018, according to a prominent ADB figure, who was speaking at the Solar and Off-Grid Renewables Southeast Asia (SORSEA) conference in Bangkok.
Filipino firm Kennedy Renewable + Technology Corp has partnered with AC Energy to provide seven school campus buildings in the Island of Tawi-Tawi, south Philippines, with solar-plus-storage systems.
An investigation by China’s Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) on polysilicon dumping by South Korean producers has resulted in only small tariff increases for the largest importers.
India’s government has signed a $98 million loan agreement and US$2 million grant agreement with the World Bank to facilitate India’s 2022 renewable energy target through solar parks.
Constant Energy has signed power purchase Agreements (PPA) with Thailand-based automotive firm Ampas Group for 4.38MW of rooftop solar projects to be installed across seven manufacturing plants at the Bangpoo Industrial Estate.
UPDATED: An oral hearing on India’s anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar cells and modules from China, Taiwan and Malaysia has been postponed to 12 December.
