Central & East Asia

Indian power company JSW Energy Limited has been awarded the contract for a 700MW solar PV project through its wholly-owned subsidiary, JSW Neo Energy.

Following a decade of technological innovation and geopolitical challenges, PV Tech Power revisits the issue of module quality.

China's newly added solar PV capacity in the in the first quarter of 2024 was 45.7GW, up from 33.7GW in the same quarter last year.

Solargis' latest figures for solar irradiance in India show that increased pollution has contributed to falling solar power output.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €150 million (US$159 million) loan to support the development of solar PV and hydropower plants in Bhutan.

Corporate financing in the solar sector reached US$8.1 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to energy analyst Mercom Capital.

Clean energy added about US$320 billion to the world economy last year, accounting for 10% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a study from the IEA.

The Bank of China has supplied ACWA Power with a US$80 million equity bridge loan for the latter’s Tashkent solar-plus-storage portfolio.

The transaction price of n-type silicon rod has fallen to 58-60 RMB/kg (US$8.01-8.29/kg) and the average price is down 3.30% month-on-month.

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has published its latest figures for clean power capacity additions in the country, which show that the country added 15GW of new solar capacity in the 12 months to the end of March 2024.