Central & East Asia

Ningbo-based manufacturer walks PV Tech through plans to target sales in China, North America, Europe and others, with COVID-19 forcing company to redeploy sales efforts online.

China could accommodate nearly 50GW of new solar PV capacity this year, new analysis has revealed.

Projects can stay money-making for cost-savvy developers and investors but tariffs below INR 2.5/kWh (3.47 US dollar cents per kWh) are ‘unviable’, say IEEFA experts.

Partnership with Huanghe Hydropower will see Sungrow provide PV inverter and energy storage systems for a major solar-plus-storage project in Qinghai Province, China.

Russia-based high-efficiency heterojunction solar module producer starts producing heterojunction cells using the M2+ (157.35 mm x 157.35 mm) n-type mono wafer, providing cell peak power up to 5.88Wp.

Indian developer receives Force Majeure notices from under pressure Discoms over solar payments but SECI steps in to block claims.

Virus impact beyond three months would 'seriously' affect many local PV players given industry's reliance on KSEB's 500MW rooftop programme, KREEPA secretaries tell PV Tech.

Discom finance woes could raise C&I grid tariffs boosting business case for installing solar but contract reneging a concern for wider PV industry, SunSource exec tells PV Tech.

Power demand plunge under India's lockdown raises PV curtailment threats while under-construction projects face ominous delays, ACME exec tells PV Tech.

JP Morgan’s majority-owned multinational independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix has brought online a 38.7MW PV plant in southern Japan, while an analyst has said the country’s solar industry continues to target cost reductions to bring it in line with global levelised cost of energy (LCOE) figures.