Although the floating solar market is expanding, the top 10 countries that will have more than 500MW of cumulative floating solar installations by 2031 are entirely from Asia.
Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has announced that it had shipped over 1GW of solar modules to the Middle East distribution solar market by the second quarter of 2023.
Investment in renewables in Southeast Asian countries could reach US$119 billion by 2027 driven by wind, solar and geothermal projects, according to energy research Rystad Energy.
Global investment in solar in the first half of 2023 increased by 43% year-on-year (YoY) to reach US$239 billion, but renewable energy investment was still far below the required amount to reach the net zero goal by 2050.
The Australian government’s green bank Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has increased its renewable energy investment to a record of AU$1.2 billion (US$770 million) in the 2022-23 year.
Chinese solar PV company Trina Solar has supplied 140MW of its Vertex dual-glass bifacial modules to French renewable power company Voltalia for a solar PV project in Albania.