Greenyellow Thailand has commissioned Thailand’s first floating solar power plant. The 2 MW plant has been deployed in Thailand on the historic site of local agro-food company SPM group.
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Japanese electronics company, Panasonic Corporation has announced that it will look to shut down the production capacity for solar products at its facilities in Malaysia and Japan by the end of the financial year 2022. The company currently manufactures solar wafers, cells, and modules at its facility in Malaysia. It will look to liquidate its subsidiary, Panasonic Solar Energy Malaysia, and lay off its employees by March 2022.
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A unit of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. defaulted on a $500 million bond after ending an exchange offer with existing bondholders. GCL New Energy Holdings Ltd. announced the default in an exchange filing. The firm, which operates solar power plants, is majority owned by GCL-Poly, one of the world’s leading makers of solar-grade polysilicon, and whose shares have soared 700 per cent since China announced plans to be carbon neutral by 2060.
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ACWA Power, a Saudi Arabia based power producer plans to build two wind farms and a thermal plant under a $2.5 billion public-private partnership in Uzbekistan. These are a part of the Uzbek government’s plans to build nine new electric power plants this year, including four thermal power plants and two wind farms.
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Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) has issued a Request for Selection (RfS) of solar developers to purchase power from 500 MW grid-connected solar photovoltaic power projects. GUVNL shall enter into a power purchase agreement with successful bidders for 25 years from the project’s scheduled commercial operation date.
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Amazon has announced five new renewable energy projects in China, Australia and the US that further support Amazon’s commitment to reach 80 per cent renewable energy by 2024 and 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030 (and potentially as early as 2025), as well as to reach net zero carbon by 2040.
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India’s ReNew Power has won the country’s first tender to provide continuous (24/7) green energy, bidding for an initial price of INR 2,900 per MWh. The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a central public sector undertaking, conducted e-reverse auction for the 400 MW renewable energy projects with round-the-clock supply.
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