Asia & Oceania

Chinese-owned solar manufacturer Astronergy has planned to invest US$584 million in a solar cell plant in Turkey.

Australia’s Green Power Generation (GPG) has inaugurated a 128MW hybrid solar PV and battery energy storage (BESS) project in Western Australia.

According to research from Rystad Energy, the 40MW Greenough River solar PV plant in Western Australia was the country's best-performing utility-scale solar asset in terms of AC capacity factor for the second month running.

India’s open access market has the potential to offer 20GW of solar PV to power the country’s heavy industries, according to a report from think tank Ember.

Potentia Energy has acquired a 1.2GW renewable energy generation and energy storage portfolio in Australia from CVC DIF and Cbus Super.

Solar manufacturer Canadian Solar has partnered with Australian energy retailer Flow Power to supply anti-hail solar PV modules for a solar PV power plant in South Australia.

India has nearly trebled its annual nameplate for solar cells from 9GW to 25GW between March 2024 and March 2025, according to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

GCL Technology has removed itself from the Xinjiang region and abandoned the Siemens method of polysilicon production.

A round-up of news from China with the price of solar wafers going up, TCL Zhonghuan shipping over 200GW of 210mm wafers and Complant securing an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a PV project in Congo.

PV Talk: “Our best chance of establishing a viable solar industry is in partnership with China,” Brett Hallam tells PV Tech Premium.