Australian university signs deal to become 100% renewable, IBC Solar installs 4MW rooftop project in Turkey, EBRD supports France’s Urbasolar in Kazakhstan
Australia has installed 1,778,687 rooftop PV systems, totalling just more than 6.29GW in capacity, as of 1 December 2017, according to new data from Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER).
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) plans INR234.5 billion in financial support for Discoms to drive rooftop solar, The Indian government has taken remedial action on its solar import trouble at ports.
Aiming to make its local solar manufacturers competitive on the global stage, the Indian government has proposed direct financial support of INR110 billion (US$1.7 billion) and a 12GW allocation of public sector tenders mandated to include locally sourced PV equipment.
Australia has now commissioned 1GW of solar this year, according to analysis from consultancy firm SunWiz, and multiple other records have been broken.
Rooftop solar growth in India is rising in spite of government policy support, which has been lacking or misplaced, according to panellists at Intersolar India in Mumbai.