Asia & Oceania

The Japanese Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced that applications for subsidies under the country’s feed-in tariff programme for residential photovoltaic (PV) installations will close at the end of next March.

The joint secretary for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Shri Tarun Kapoor said invitations for tenders for the 4GW mega solar project in India will begin in a few months.

China Solar Energy Holdings has released a statement confirming one of the executives facing fraud allegations has been bailed.

China’s Ministry of Commerce has said it will extend a probe into imports of solar-grade polysilicon from Europe by six months.

Global renewables project developer, New Generation Power, and engineer, procurement and construction company, Premier Solar Group have signed a power purchase agreement for 315MW of solar energy in Andhra Pradesh.

Sunlabob Renewable Energy has completed work on a mini-grid that will supply electricity to a remote village in rural Laos.

The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has set a new solar target for 1,400MW of solar by 2015.

Malaysia’s Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) has closed 2013 applications for its solar rooftop feed-in tariff after receiving an overwhelming demand for the latest quota it made available.

Conergy has won the contract to build 21MW of solar PV in Thailand, taking its capacity in the country over the 100MW mark.

Shunfeng Photovoltaics International, the company revealed yesterday as a bidder for struggling Wuxi Suntech, has secured a HK$980,000,000 (US$126,000,000) loan to expand its PV project development business.