Central & East Asia

JFE Engineering has been contracted to build a 21.7MW photovoltaic power plant on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido by Japanese investment management firm Sparx Group.

In July mounting system manufacturer Clenergy completed work on a 20.6MW ground mount solar PV system in Yanqi County, Xinjiang, China.

Japanese telecommunications provider Softbank, which recently purchased US mobile company Sprint for US$20 billion, is considering the construction of a 40MW solar power plant in central Japan.

The petition made by state-owned electricity distributor Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. (GUVNL) to cut the rate it pays for energy from 88 solar projects by 28% has been rejected.

Seven private companies and one public joint venture have received a letter of intent for 230MW of solar projects in Uttar Pradesh.

Irish renewables developer Mainstream Renewable Power has signed an equity investment deal worth €100 million (US$133 million) with Japan’s Marubeni Corporation trading company.

Clenergy has supplied 24MW of its mounting equipment for a rooftop PV system in China, and also completed its first project in Vietnam.

The European Commission (EC) has been accused of using biased information from Europressedienst, the German-based market and media consultancy that provided statistics for the EU/China dumping dispute.

The Punjab government signed MoU's for solar investment with a consortium of countries to rapidly combat Pakistan’s energy crisis.

A groundbreaking ceremony took place on Tuesday for a 25.8MW solar plant which is to be built in Japan, on the site of a former golf course in the south west of the country, by Japanese home building corporation Sekisui House.