Central & East Asia

PV Tech spoke to Ricky Chen, President of Huawei Asia Pacific Smart PV & ESS Business, about FusionSolar9.0's role in enabling higher-quality solar deployment

Exports of Chinese solar products hit a record 68GW in March 2026, a figure that is equivalent to Spain’s entire solar PV capacity.

India has become the third-largest country by installed renewable energy capacity, reaching 274.68, with over 150GW of solar PV capacity, according to statistics from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

The world added more than 200GW of new utility-scale solar PV capacity in 2025, according to figures from Wiki-Solar.

South Korea has announced plans to almost triple its operational renewable energy capacity from 37GW today to 100GW by the end of the decade.

LONGi has launched its solar-plus-storage strategy, LONGi One, marking a shift from traditional multi-vendor system architectures to a fully integrated design approach.

French oil and gas major TotalEnergies has signed a US$2.2 billion joint venture (JV) with the Emirati state-run renewable energy developer Masdar to jointly develop renewables across Asia.

Since the start of March, several leading Chinese PV manufacturers have announced overseas module supply agreements.

Indian rooftop solar specialist Solarium has moved into PV manufacturing with the commissioning of a 1GW module facility in Gujarat.

Current solar PV module price increases are largely dictated by five major components, according to data from Intertek CEA