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Solar developers in Ireland have been told not to expect the first auction in a new government support scheme for large scale projects until early 2018 in the latest update from the Irish Solar Energy Association (ISEA).

Mexico is set to hit between 30-40GW of solar PV installations by 2040 under various scenarios projected by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Spain’s new minority government is set to herald a new wave of gigawatt-scale renewable tenders and its lack of majority may even lead to the lifting of a controversial ‘Sun Tax’ on solar self-consumption.

Solar PV has a strong role to play in the Philippines where energy demand continues to grow and the power mix remains expensive. While significant utility-scale solar deployments peaked ahead of a deadline to qualify for the Feed-in-Tariff in March this year, a new subsidy quota is on the horizon. PV Tech caught up with Pete Maniego, senior policy adviser of the Institute for Climate & Sustainable Cities and of Counsel of Dime & Eviota Law, to gather his insights on solar subsidies and how PV can compete with fossil fuels in the Southeast Asian country.

Participants in Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) 500MW rooftop solar tender have put in a high variation of bidding levels with some states undersubscribed, according to Jasmeet Khurana, associate director, consulting at Bridge to India.

A tender for 1GW capacity in Inner Mongolia has brought in China’s lowest ever bids for solar energy, according to media reports.

Argentina’s 1GW renewables tender has received submissions for 6,366MW of capacity, according the Ministry of Energy and Mining.

Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) is proposing to allow solar developers that won projects in the 2014 auction to cancel them with a reduced penalty fee.

Solar won 720GWh of the 12,430GWh of power on offer from the Chile National Energy Commission, but wind dominated.

Indonesia’s first ever feed-in tariff (FiT) for solar PV projects should generate attractive project returns in Java-Bali and Sumatra, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) research note.