Central & East Asia

Industry members tell PV Tech of rising costs, a FIT reduction fall out, cutting power and utilities 'aggressively' entering the market.

Only small project winners line up contracts as Ministry hands out far less capacity than was on offer when the tender exercise was launched.

Major global investors eye 4GW of solar and wind using expertise of industry veterans formerly of Goldman Sachs-backed venture.

Chinese PV developer and manufacturer Risen Energy has brought online a 50MW solar project that is billed as the first large-scale Kazakh PV plant to use trackers.

PV might have only seen 30.22GW added throughout 2019 but ‘year-end rally’ hinted at by latest NEA figures may indicate market will rebound more than expected in 2020, analysts say.

Industry association GÜNDER tells PV Tech it expects mix of large-scale tenders and net metering support for smaller systems will drive annual gigawatt-scale growth starting this year.

Roadmap backed by development financier will see solar–battery–diesel mixes replace diesel-only mini-grids across 48 islands.

Indian government body continues main solar-wind hybrid push and offers novel floating PV and energy storage combination on remote islands.

One of the world's largest employers set to progress with renewable ambitions by installing 500MW on rooftops, another 500MW on land and adding 200MW of wind by 2021-22.

PV reaps lion's share of seventh funding round of IRENA/ADFD's project facility, set to back solar ventures in Africa and the Caribbean totalling at least 42.5MW.