Asia & Oceania

A roundup of two agrivoltaics projects from different sides of the world, from US PV developer Avangrid and Lodestone Energy in New Zealand.

AEMO has granted BrightNight approval to connect its Mortlake Energy Hub, which includes solar and storage facilities, to the Victoria grid.

Sungrow's Lei Wang discusses the company's floating solar activities and opportunities for PV to go offshore.

China added 102.48GW of new PV installations between January and June 2024, according to the latest data from China's National Energy Administration.

The AEMO has signaled that grid-scale solar generated an average of over 1.4GW in Q2 2024, a 132MW increase year-on-year.

Asahi Beverages, BaptistCare have sign PPAs to secure energy from “one of the largest solar farms” in New South Wales, Australia.

India has published its latest budget, which includes a plan to install new rooftop solar systems on ten million homes across the country.

EneCoat Technologies has raised JPY5.5 billion (US$35 million) in Series C financing to support research into perovskite solar cells.

Western Australia has become the second state to sign a Renewable Energy Transformation Agreement with the Federal government, aiming to support renewable energy generation technologies, such as solar.

The EU and the US are leading efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of PV manufacturing through targeted import tariffs. As well as supporting decarbonisation efforts, such policies could also promote geographic diversification in the solar supply chain and greater supply resilience, writes Michael Parr of the Ultra Low Carbon Solar Alliance.