Asia & Oceania

India is set for record solar installations in 2026, while ALMM-II drives cell shortages and higher system prices, according to Wood Mackenzie.

China’s polysilicon market saw no new transactions last week, with quoted prices remaining at the previous week’s baseline.

New South Wales (NSW) has released a Data Centre Policy Framework that ties streamlined planning approval for new data centres to commitments on renewable energy, water use and cost recovery, becoming the first state to translate Australia's national data centre policy direction into detailed operating rules.

Mainstream Renewable Power’s 50MW C&I Ilikwa PV Facility in South Africa’s Free State province has reached commercial operation.

Recurrent Energy has started commercial operations at its 150MW Carwarp Energy park in Victoria, Australia, backed by a power purchase agreement with tech giant Microsoft.

Websol has begun a brownfield upgrade of a 600MW mono PERC cell manufacturing line to TOPCon, increasing its total cell capacity to 1.35GW.

Researchers in Australia have heralded a potential breakthrough in recovering valuable silver from decommissioned PV modules.

Chinese solar tracker manufacturer Arctech has secured 425MW of utility-scale solar tracker projects across Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Purvah Green Power has agreed to acquire six SPVs holding a combined 1.4GW of operational renewable energy capacity from ReNew Solar Power.

India’s SECI awarded 1GW to seven bidders under its RTC-TM tender, with Juniper securing the largest allocation.