Chinese PV Industry Brief: Polysilicon and wafer prices keep increasing
Longi has raised its wafer prices for June and the China Nonferrous Metals Association has reported this week that polysilicon reached a price of RMB200-210 per kg, and that the highest price exceeded RMB230 per kg.
PV sweeps Greece’s 350 MW tender with country record €0.03297/kWh tariff
Greece held its latest round of solar and wind power auctions this week. Overall, 350 MW of PV was allocated while wind power projects failed to win any capacity.
India may add 7 GW of PV in 2021
Solar installations surged in the first quarter of 2021, with developers completing their delayed projects from last year.
Turkey’s PV tender concludes with lowest price of $0.021/kWh and 1 GW of allocated capacity
The procurement exercise’s highest price was $0.037/kWh. The Turkish authorities selected projects ranging in size from 10 to 20 MW and relying on 70% locally manufactured panels.
InfraCo, Solvéo secure 25-year PPA for solar park in Guinea
The Khoumagueli Solar IPP project will sell power to local utility Electricité de Guinée (EDG).
Italy allocates 32.2 MW of solar in fifth renewables auction
The auction was, once again, largely unsubscribed. The Italian authorities selected eight solar projects planned in the regions of Emilia-Romagna and Sicily. Enel Green Power was the largest winner with seven projects. The lowest bid came in at €0.0685/kWh.
Spain plans auction to grant grid access capacity to 1.3 GW of renewables
The auction is intended at providing the missing capacity resulting from the closure of the Andorra thermal power plant in Teruel.
ESMC criticises lack of solar manufacturing in Euro recovery plans
The trade body has highlighted a lack of explicit PV industry support in EU member states which already host domestic manufacturers, such as Germany, France, Austria, Belgium and Lithuania, and says the focus on green hydrogen could exacerbate the solar trade deficit with Asia.
Poland’s PV capacity reaches 4.46 GW
In the first quarter of the year, more than 500 MW of solar was deployed in the eastern European country.
Australian study labels green hydrogen cost projections as ‘too conservative’
A new study commissioned by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation has indicated renewable hydrogen is already approaching cost competitiveness with that produced using fossil fuels but some in the industry say the government-owned green bank’s figures are much too conservative.
