Central & East Asia

India’s accelerated pace with its domestic solar manufacturing capacity is set to reach 110GW of solar PV module capacity per year by 2026.

PV module prices are set to fall considerably in the next five years, though US market prices will remain higher than the rest of the world as its import policies and ongoing competition with China add a market premium.

A developer is required to submit a bid with a minimum capacity of 50MW, while it can also bid for up to 2GW.

Solar tracker supplier Nextracker has signed a deal with EPC contractor Sterling and Wilson to supply trackers to a 1.2GW solar PV project in India.

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