Central & East Asia

SECI follows through with its tender promise earlier this month as the public sector solar scheme starts to ramp up.

Saudi firm enters joint venture with Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh to deliver PV project in southeastern district of Feni.

Both projects will contribute to cutting down on gas use at existing turbines, while the Tunisia system will be combined with battery energy storage.

India continues with 1.2GW of PV in Madhya Pradesh, 275MW in Uttar Pradesh, and a significant solar-plus-storage tender in Andhra Pradesh, while the prime minister approves the 'National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage'.

The government will watch early tenders with a view to possibly including ingots, wafers and polysilicon to the domestic content mandate.

ADB supports 50MW Kazakhstan PV project, Siddiqsons applications for 100MW in Pakistan, ABB supplies 9MW Greece solar plant, Sonnedix refinances 32MW solar portfolio in France, Eni commissions solar water system in Angola.

Concessional loans of US$185 million to help build first 50MW of PV project and create privately-funded facility providing credits to PV developers.

Continuing a gargantuan tender spree, SECI is looking to procure solar and storage in desert and mountainous states as well as the far south.

India's solar tender spree continues with more alternative versions of the technology.

A 750MW solar PV auction for capacity in the Indian state of Rajasthan has drawn lowest bids that were four rupees per unit higher than India's record low.