Mar 30, 2022

Lobbying attempts by the world’s big solar players to attempt to persuade the Chinese government to soften its move to curtail solar deployment met with only marginal success this week. The Chinese authorities announced a week ago an immediate halt to further subsidized ground-mount projects this year, as well as introducing a 10 GW cap – which analysts believe may already have been pa...

Mar 30, 2022

The Japanese government is steadily working toward the release of the country’s fifth strategic energy plan, but it needs to work with the private sector more effectively to promote the deployment of solar over the coming decades, according to a new report. “With a potential for growth to 100 GW to 200 GW-scale installed capacity, PV is the leading power source of renewable energy,&rdq...

Mar 30, 2022

  South Korean investors are reportedly planning to support a 17 MW solar mounting systems project in Center Province in Iran, according to state-run news portal the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). A South Korea delegation has visited the site at Zarandia County, in northernmost Center, and is expected to invest US$44 million in the project, accounting for 70% of the project, with an Ira...

Mar 30, 2022

Australia has surpassed 1.8 million solar rooftops solar power systems on households and businesses, according to campaign group Solar Citizens. Residences are taking advantage of rooftop solar due to rising electricity prices although upfront costs remain a barrier to certain parts of society. As a result, Solar Citizens has called on all governments to take more action in enabling low-income hou...

Mar 30, 2022

Iran is planning a 1.5GW solar power systems project along the Tehran-Qom Highway that runs through the centre of the country, according to the state-owned news agency IRNA. Managing director of the utility Qom Province Electricity Distribution Company Mehdi Ahanin Panjeh said the plant would help strengthen the grid. He also noted that the utility was open to signing 20-year power purchase agreem...

Mar 30, 2022

The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) is planning huge developments in grid-connected and off-grid solar to support countries in electrification and mitigating climate change across the Sahel region by 2020. As well as offering to support African countries insuring themselves against weather disasters, the bank will use its Desert to Power initiative to help develop 10GW of Solar Mounting Systems pow...

Mar 30, 2022

Turki Mohammed Al Shehri, head of Saudi Arabia's renewable energy project development office, said in an interview in Abu Dhabi recently that Saudi Arabia will spend 5-7 billion U.S. dollars in developing renewable energy projects in 2018, especially solar energy mounting systems. According to the plan, in 2018, Saudi Arabia will tender eight renewable energy projects, with a total installed capac...

Mar 30, 2022

It’s been less than 6 months since Australia received its first shipment of the highly anticipated Tesla Powerwalls, but the country’s developers are already gearing up for big changes, announcing plans to build the world’s first Telsa-powered town in Melbourne. According to D’Marge, the mini-suburb located on the outskirts of Melbourne’s CBD, has been dubbed “Y...

Mar 30, 2022

(PV-Tech) According to the Annual Energy Report released by the Singapore solar mounting systems Market Regulatory Authority (EMA), the Singapore market has completed a total of 129.8MW of installed solar photovoltaic systems by the end of the first quarter of 2017, up from 33.1MW at the end of 2014 Installation volume increased fourfold. The EMA said that the substantial growth in the PV system w...