Southeast Asia & Oceania

Vena Energy and Shell Eastern Trading have secured conditional approval from the Energy Market Authority of Singapore (EMA) to export 400MW of solar PV from the Riau Islands in Indonesia to Singapore.

In this blog, PV Tech Premium speaks to Richard Petterson, CEO of Tindo Solar, on solar PV module recycling in Australia.

The Climate Change Authority has signalled that Australia’s electricity and energy sector accounts for 35% of the country’s emissions.

Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar has signed a 1.2GW TOPCon module framework supply agreement with renewables developer Vanda RE in Indonesia.

Solar consultancy group SunWiz has revealed that rooftop solar PV volumes in Australia fell by 7% month-on-month in August yet it still managed to be the 13th-best month on record.

Australia has around 5,516MW of solar PV projects currently in financial commitment or under construction, with the majority of these based in Victoria (4 September).

The island nation of Fiji has issued a new tender seeking companies to express interest in building four ground-mounted solar PV power plants with a combined capacity of 31.93MW.

Plans for a 50GW hybrid solar PV and wind project in Western Australia have progressed with project developers Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH) and the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) having signed a new collaboration agreement yesterday (2 September).

From 26 August to 1 September, Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) saw the highest rooftop and utility-scale solar PV contribution across the 2024 winter period.

On Saturday (31 August), the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) opened the first round of its AUS$1 billion Solar Sunshot programme.