Asia & Oceania

A round-up of news from China with the price of solar wafers going up, TCL Zhonghuan shipping over 200GW of 210mm wafers and Complant securing an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a PV project in Congo.

PV Talk: “Our best chance of establishing a viable solar industry is in partnership with China,” Brett Hallam tells PV Tech Premium.

PERC solar PV technology is “all but obsolete” in Europe, as the flow of cheap N-type products coming from China is unlikely to abate.

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

Pacific Energy has completed developing a 61MW solar-wind hybrid renewable energy project to power a gold mine in Western Australia.

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

Leading Chinese module manufacturer Trinasolar has developed an 808W solar module that uses perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.

Waaree Energies has commissioned a 5.4GW cell manufacturing facility in Gujarat, the largest cell manufacturing facility in India.

Edify Energy has submitted an 80MW solar-plus-storage project in New South Wales to the Australian government’s EPBC Act.

NHPC India has launched a tender for solar-plus-storage projects, aiming to secure 1.2GW of solar capacity and 600MW/2,400MWh of storage.