Central & East Asia

Solar PV silicon wafer manufacturer TCL Zhonghuan has planned to reach a total mono wafer annual capacity of 180GW by the end of 2023.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has released the list of companies awarded in the second round of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI).

large scale solar PV plants are encouraged to be built in deserts, including Gobi, oil fields and coalfields that can hardly be restored. 

Masdar regional head lays out company’s long-held ambitions in the region highlighting transmission as key to clean energy proliferation.

The Indian governemnt has granted approvals for just under 5GW of solar PV projects to be deployed in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, in the north of the country

The projects consist of a 90MW floating solar project in Madhya Pradesh and a 100MW utility-scale solar PV project to be built in Gujarat

Comprising 14 production lines, the factory is expected to begin production on or before the end of October this year.

Solar developer Emeren, formerly known as ReneSola Power, has targeted to reach a 4GW pipeline of solar and storage projects by the end of 2023.

IRENA believed that yearly investments must more than quadruple to over US$5 trillion to stay on the 1.5°C pathway.

New PV instalments for the first two months of 2023 in China reached 20.37GW, up 87.6% from the same period last year when it reached 10.86GW between January and February 2022, according to China's National Energy Administration's latest data.