Southeast Asia & Oceania

European Energy and data centre operator AirTrunk have officially opened the 31MW Mulwala solar PV plant in NSW.

Sungrow has signed three distribution agreements in Australia covering 1.5GW of solar PV and 4GWh of battery storage, with Solar Juice, Supply Partners and Raystech Group.

A New South Wales (NSW) parliamentary inquiry has recommended that data centres be legally required to supply their own 100% renewable energy on an hourly basis, a stricter test than the state's current guidelines.

FTC Solar has signed a non-binding MoU with four Australian steel companies to explore local supply of steel for utility-scale solar plants.

Utility-scale solar generation in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) fell 3.3% to 1,746GWh in October 2026, its first monthly decline since June, as annual growth slowed to 4.4%.

New Zealand solar developer Lightyears has secured NZ$174 million to accelerate its solar PV build-out across the country.

Frontier Energy has executed an AU$280 million syndicated debt facility for its 132MW Waroona solar-plus-storage project in Western Australia.

Yingfa Ruineng has launched its first overseas plant, a 7.5GW TOPCon cell manufacturing facility in Indonesia.

Neoen has secured AU$1.8 billion in debt financing from 13 lenders for a 1.2GW Australian renewables and energy storage portfolio.

The 200MW FPV project in Malaysia will be one of the largest floating solar developments in Southeast Asia, built using Masdar's experience from 145MW Cirata plant in Indonesia.