Ho Chi Minh City-based conglomerate TTC Corp plans to start constructing three solar projects, totalling 150MW of capacity, in Vietnam in the first half of next year.
Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has reached 1GW of solar capacity investments across 20 large-scale projects since 2013 with a total investment of AU$898 million (US$689 million).
Hospitals, schools and railways in South Australia will be powered by an electricity retailer started up by billionaire steel trader Sanjeev Gupta, following the signing of an agreement between the state government and Gupta’s SIMEC ZEN Energy.
Chinese clean energy firm Linyang Energy has signed an MoU with Singapore-based solar developer Sunseap to work on distributed solar, floating solar, module supply and energy efficiency projects locally in Singapore.
Philippines-based commercial bank, BDO Unibank, has issued its first green bond investment for US$150 million to sole investor the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), to expand finance for private sector investments and to tackle climate change.
Australia has now commissioned 1GW of solar this year, according to analysis from consultancy firm SunWiz, and multiple other records have been broken.
Construction on Australia’s first utility-scale wind, solar and energy storage hybrid project to be connected to the national grid is about to start near Hughenden in northwest Queensland.
Developer Maoneng Australia has signed what it claims to be Australia’s largest solar power purchase agreement (PPA) with utility AGL Energy for 300MW of PV projects in New South Wales.
The Energy Commission of Malaysia (EC) has released the list of winning developers in its second Large-Scale Solar (LSS) tender round, offering roughly 563MWac of capacity.
