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Australia is poised to experience its biggest ever boom in large-scale solar construction over the next year as a range of international market factors and local policy incentives take hold.

The new storage arm of Trina Solar, Trina Energy Storage Solutions, otherwise known as TrinaBEST, has announced the establishment of a Japanese subsidiary, TrinaBEST Japan to help grow its energy storage business in Japan.

The German utility’s renewable energy arm, innogy SE, has signed the contract to acquire Belectric Solar & Battery, a solar developer who has built more than 1.5 GWp of PV projects worldwide, significantly enhancing the company’s solar and storage expertise.

Japanese electronics giant is preparing to expand into the Chinese solar market with an eye on supplying megasolar plants being planned across the country. Strategy could prove risky, experts say.

Having originally announced details of a 25 MW project, the Perth-based solar power integrator has now secured a larger tract of land and promising funding to upsize the plant to 100 MW.

The grant from the U.K.’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will enable the Australian organic cell developer to better understand the impact of halide modified titania on Perovskite cell performance.

The German lender provides GBP 30 million in financing for the solar plants of up to 5 MW each and located across five sites in England and Wales.

A total of 1.4 GW of projects were put forward under the 200 MW tender, with energy storage projects taking positive steps forward, says Renewable Energy Agency.

However, EIA data shows solar PV only making up 1.3% of total generation, a fraction of the portion in leading European nations.

China’s second half slowdown drags module shipments down 19.5% sequentially, while lower wafer ASPs cause revenue contraction despite increased shipments.