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Arctech and CEEC Power Uzbekistan's Solar Revolution
has announced the successful grid connection of the first 400 MW phase of China Energy Engineering Group's (CEEC) 1 GW solar project in Uzbekistan. Arctech's
Jan 9, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Uzbekistan, PV Power Plant, arctech, CEEC
China’s record-breaking 600 MW/2.4 GWh battery hub hits first-phase milestone
China has ticked off a key construction milestone on what will be its largest electro-chemical energy-storage plant to date. Project contractors have now installed the last of 240 prefabricated battery cabins and 60 power-conversion skids at the first 300 MW/1.2 GWh block of Huaneng’s 600 MW/2.4 GWh long-duration battery complex in Huanxian County, Qingyang, Gansu province.  The two-block facility underpins the ±800 kV Longdong–Shandong UHVDC transmission link, a flagship “wind–solar–thermal-storage” programme in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Each block will provide four hours of discharge, using Huaneng’s single-stage distributed architecture: dozens of small PCS modules manage individual high-voltage battery strings, improving round-trip efficiency by roughly 4.6 percentage points versus traditional centralised layouts and extending available capacity retention by about five points over the plant’s lifetime. Once both blocks are energised—targeted for the first half of 2025—the site will be able to shift up to 840 GWh of renewable generation onto the grid every year, enough to cover the daily electricity needs of about 480 000 households and to stabilise the high-voltage corridor that moves 8 GW of mixed clean power from resource-rich Gansu to demand-heavy Shandong. The completion of cabin deployment paves the way for pre-commissioning tests, inverter synchronisation and grid-code compliance checks. Industry sources expect the first 300 MW tranche to begin trial operation by late Q3 2025, giving operators real-time data on system efficiency and thermal performance across Gansu’s desert climate—a proving ground that could influence design choices for China’s next wave of multi-gigawatt-hour storage builds. Market analysts note that finishing the first 1.2 GWh segment on schedule will be critical for avoiding curtailment when the Longdong renewables base ramps up output this summer. It also signals growing confidence in China’s ability to scale modular lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) systems beyond the 1 GWh mark, narrowing the gap with pumped hydro while offering far quicker deployment.
Jun 10, 2025 // Storage, China, Asia, Huaneng
Myanmar's 1 GW solar tender ends with least expensive bid of $0.0348/ kWh.
$0.051/ kWh, according to a listing of winning prospective buyers, released by China Dialogue, a not-for-profit company. The most significant champions were
Sep 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, tender, Asia, Myanmar
JinkoSolar preparations STAR listing, eyes R&D boost after US$ 458m equity financing
the business said. Capitalists to participate in the equity raise include China Industrial Bank Group, CIIT Asset Management, YunShang Fund, Huaho Capital,
Oct 30, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Jinko, Kangping Chen, shanghai stock exchange, star
Brazil to become competitive solar panel maker
more reason to boost solar panel production in Brazil is coronavirus, keeping China from producing solar modules in the current year. Today, the People's Republic
Jan 29, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, South america, Brazil, PV panel
Powering Pakistan: 1.3-GW Renewables Hub Interconnection Study Launched
with energy storage. The project is being developed in collaboration with China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co Ltd, with the study being conducted
May 7, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Pakistan
Solar Module Costs Hit 2 Year highs, Gap Between Multi, Mono-Perc Widens
Module rates in China's 'place' market continued to climb additionally at the end of the China National Day Vacation Weekend Break. Hence, the rate fad
Oct 12, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, prices, solar module
Tariffs Threaten to Undermine Global Shift to Clean Power
on Chinese photovoltaic panels in an effort to prop up American factories. China struck back the list below year by embracing its very own import taxes on US
Oct 27, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, North America, John Helveston, George Washington University
Solar electricity can retail for $0.027-0.036/KWh as renewables close in on global grid parity
and has already reached parity with wholesale power prices in California, China and parts of Europe, according to the latest report from business intelligence
Nov 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, California, USA, India, China, Australia, Chile, South america, Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act enters into force in the United States
big implications for the US solar sector, is an action to accusations that China is maltreating Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the north-western area
Jun 21, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Policy, USA, China, Asia, North America, Xinjiang, imports, import ban, Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act, customs and border protection, UFLPA
Last AD/CVD decision on Southeast Asian solar cells as well as panels pushed to August
plastic acetate sheets as well as junction boxes. Wafers created beyond China with Chinese polysilicon are not considered to be wafers produced in
Apr 27, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, South Asia, AD/CVD, Jose Rivera
Export analysis
surpasses APAC   Listed in order of export volume, China’s top 10 export destinations from January to June 2019 were the
Nov 1, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Japan, Canadian Solar, Spain, Portugal, Germany, India, SunPower, China, Ukraine, Australia, JA Solar, Europe, JinkoSolar, Asia, Risen Energy, Oceania, Trina Solar, PV InfoLink
LONGi boosting M6 solar-grade mono-Si wafers
largest China-based solar-grade mono-Si wafer maker LONGi Green Energy Technology has been pushing for usage of M6 solar-grade mono-Si wafers (in a square shape
Nov 6, 2019 // Manufacturing News, China, solar cells, Asia, wafers, LONGi, mono-Si
Panda Green settles $350m notes with hours to spare
which were due to mature tomorrow, after Chinese state-owned major shareholder China Merchants Group Ltd signed up to US$260 million of hastily-issued 8% senior
Jan 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Panda Green
Daqo protects last polysilicon supply deals as practically sold out for following two years
to add around 40,000 MT of new capacity from funds increased in an IPO in China for its manufacturing operations subsidiary, which needs approximately capex
Dec 23, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, JA Solar, polysilicon, JinkoSolar, Daqo New Energy, Longi Green Energy Technology, Longgen Zhang, Trina Solar, monocrystalline wafer