Asia & Oceania

Major PV inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology has claimed to have shipped over 1GW of inverters to India in 2016, holding a 26% market share, based on its figures that the market size in the country reached 3.9GW.

China-based PV energy provider (PVEP) United Photovoltaics Group is arranging a US$250 million bond through Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.

Australia’s Victorian Government plans to tender for a 75MW solar PV plant in a regional area of the state in the first half of 2017.

India’s first grid-scale solar-plus-storage tender from Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has received very strong interest with a total of 13 developers submitting bids.

Global grid-connected solar PV additions reached 75GW in 2016, a 50% year-on-year growth from 50GW in 2015, according to the PV Market Alliance (PVMA).

The Western Downs Regional Council announced Wednesday that it has approved the largest solar project in the Australian region to date.

According to the ongoing analysis of global PV manufacturing capacity expansions by PV Tech, high-efficiency solar cell migrations, whether monocrystalline or multicrystalline with PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear Contact) and N-type mono heterojunction (HJ) have been gaining strong momentum since 2015.

Dispatches from the 2nd India Rooftop Solar Congress in New Delhi including Tata, ReNew, MNRE, MYSUN and Crisil.

Asia Clean Capital has signed a power purchase agreement with the largest food and beverage producer in China, the Wahaha Group, for 3.5MW of solar energy.

Indian infrastructure development firm SPML Infra has secured a INR220 million (US$3.24 million) order from Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for EPC of rooftop solar installations in four Indian states, according to a Bombay Stock Exchange filing.