Asia & Oceania

US independent power producer (IPP) Enfinity Global has secured a US$195 million long-term financing for a 70MW solar PV plant in Japan.

Sembcorp has signed two 18-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Equinix to supply 75MW of solar power to the latter’s facilities.

Singapore-headquartered solar manufacturer Gstar Solar has broken ground on a silicon rod and wafer-slicing plant in Indonesia.

Leading Chinese module manufacturer JinkoSolar has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, which include over 21GW of shipments and total revenues of RMB23.04 billion (US$3.19 billion), a slight year-on-year (YoY) fall.

HY Solar is planning 16GW of n-type cell production capacity in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia.

An increase in solar module prices is “hard to imagine unless there is a massive shortage in supply”, according to PV Tech head of research Finlay Colville.

Trina Solar’s latest 210mm n-type industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact (i-TOPCon) module has achieved a maximum power output of 740.6W.

Enertrack talks about its expansion in the Middle East, the impact of the fall in module prices, and the future of the tracker industry.

Chinese solar manufacturer Huasun has developed a zero busbar (0BB) technology integrated with its latest heterojunction (HJT) modules.

DNV forecasts that China will more than quintuple its renewable energy installations by 2050 in its latest report.