Central & East Asia

CGN has commissioned a 400MW offshore floating solar project in Laizhou Bay, China's first large-scale deep-water offshore solar project.

Net revenues for the quarter (for both CSI Solar and Recurrent Energy, the manufacturing and project development businesses) were US$1.6 billion, a 23% increase from US$1.3 billion in Q1.

Against the backdrop of uncertain economics in the PV sector as a whole, the price of high-purity quartz sand has also fallen.

Vikram Solar has launched its latest product, the Suryava module, which is the company’s first product to use heterojunction (HJT) cells.

Chinese PV manufacturer Tongwei has announced plans to obtain a controlling interest in fellow Chinese company Runergy.

India added around 12.2GW of new solar capacity in the first half of the year, according to figures from JMK Research.

Polysilicon prices in China have continued to stabilise, with no significant fluctuations over the past month.

Last year saw 96GW of distributed PV installed in China, an all-time record. But as Carrie Xiao reports, even as the distributed market segment begins to surge, problems associated with its rapid development are beginning to emerge.

Blueleaf Energy has reached financial close for a 200MW solar-plus-wind hybrid project, under development in Madhya Pradesh, India.

A new tender from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) seeks 2,000MW of solar PV combined with 1,000MW/4,000MWh of storage.