Asia & Oceania

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.

Indian power company JSW Energy's renewables generation has increased by over 40% for Q1 FY2025, but solar's generation dropped by 2.7%.

Australian Silica Quartz has started drilling at the Quartz Hill project which could provide the minerals for Quinbrook's polysilicon plant.