Southeast Asia

The DOC issued a list of companies on Friday (29th November) that it says are exporting solar cells to the US at prices below production costs, a practice known as “price dumping”.

Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr attended as construction began on what is thought to be the world’s largest power plant to combine solar PV and battery storage.

Huasun is to supply 1.5GW of its heterojunction (HTJ) PV modules to one of Malaysia’s largest EPC contractors, ITRAMAS.

Singaporean renewable energy company Nexif Ratch Energy (NRE) has achieved financial close on a 145MW solar PV power plant in the Philippines.

This is the first determination reached in the ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigation into imports of crystalline silicon solar cells.

Solar manufacturer SEG Solar has started construction on a 5GW TOPCon vertically integrated – from ingots to modules – solar PV plant in Indonesia.

Actis has entered a strategic partnership with the companies behind a 3.5GW solar, 4.5GWh storage project in the Philippines.

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

Construction is expected to start in November, with the 2GW module assembly plant built in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Singapore-headquartered renewable energy producer Vena Energy has signed an investment agreement with MGen Renewable Energy for a 550MW solar PV project in the Philippines.