Southeast Asia

Masdar has signed two agreements with the Indonesian electricity firm PT PLN to expand floating solar capacity on the island of Java.

US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has denied Maxeon’s protests made against its detention of the company’s modules brought into the US.

US data and technology giant Meta has signed a renewable energy purchase agreement (REPA) for a 150MWp floating solar project in Singapore.

Gstar Solar has received solar equipment - monocrystalline growth furnaces - for its 3GW wafer manufacturing plant in Indonesia.

The Spanish renewables developer has closed an AU$453 million (US$287 million) loan facility for a 480MWp solar PV plant in Queensland, Australia.

The Philippines has started an auction scheme for renewable power paired with storage which aims to tender over 9GW of capacity.

Thin-film solar manufacturer First Solar has decided to reduce its module production output in Malaysia and Vietnam for a combined 1GW in 2025.

Australia-based Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG) has suggested that the outdated National Electricity Market (NEM) design is stifling investment in large-scale renewable generation projects in Australia.

The AEMO has detailed in a new report that grid-scale solar PV output achieved a new quarterly high average on the NEM of 2,212MW, an increase of 9% year-on-year (YoY).

ARENA will provide AU$20.8 million (US$12.9 million) in funding to a project focused on operating distributed energy resources (DERs) within Western Australia’s South West Interconnected System (SWIS).