Asia & Oceania

Clenergy has supplied 24MW of its mounting equipment for a rooftop PV system in China, and also completed its first project in Vietnam.

The European Commission (EC) has been accused of using biased information from Europressedienst, the German-based market and media consultancy that provided statistics for the EU/China dumping dispute.

The Punjab government signed MoU's for solar investment with a consortium of countries to rapidly combat Pakistan’s energy crisis.

A groundbreaking ceremony took place on Tuesday for a 25.8MW solar plant which is to be built in Japan, on the site of a former golf course in the south west of the country, by Japanese home building corporation Sekisui House.

Chinese PV manufacturers JA Solar and Powerway are to join forces to target South Africa’s burgeoning solar market.

Construction work is underway on the 100MW Raasi Solar Park in Tamil Nadu, India.

Indian solar companies who successfully petitioned for an investigation into alleged dumping of modules from China, the US, Taiwan and Malaysia, have called for the inquiry to include Japan and the EU.

The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) has approved a 20MW plant proposed by South Korea-based renewable energy company, Mirae Asia.

The Chinese government is to introduce from next week provisional anti-dumping duties against solar-grade polysilicon imports from the United States and South Korea.

Chinese solar manufacturer and developer NARI has formed a partnership with solar mounting supplier Powerway Renewable Energy to jointly build PV projects in South Africa.