Japan

SB Energy has started building a 22.4 MW solar array in Miyazaki prefecture, southern Japan.

Equis Energy has selected a unit of France’s Bouygues Construction and Tokyo-based Toho Electrical to provide EPC services for a 41 MW solar project it is developing in Japan.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has approved Canadian Solar’s plan to list the Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund (CSIF) on the Japanese exchange’s infrastructure investment fund securities market.

Japan’s Toshiba has fabricated a perovskite solar cell mini-module with an energy conversion rate of 10.5%, which it claims is now the highest rate that has been reached throughout the world with a multi-cell mini-module.

JAG International Energy has finished building a 15.4 MW solar array at a site roughly 185 km northwest of Tokyo.

PanaHome, a unit of Panasonic, has revealed plans to connect 117 homes in western Japan to a solar-powered microgrid system, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

Japan’s Eurus Energy has entered the Chilean solar market by purchasing 18 MW (AC) of operational PV capacity in the South American country from Spanish renewables developer Grenergy Renovables.

Coated on both sides with an elastomer that ensures stretchability and stability in water, the new textile-compatible photovoltaics are able to maintain high efficiency of 7.9%.

Japanese renewables developer Renova has wrapped up financing for a 21.6 MW solar array it plans to construct in Mie prefecture, near the Japanese city of Nagoya.

The U.S. subsidiary of Japanese thin-film PV manufacturer Solar Frontier has sold off 28 MW of solar capacity to a unit of Swiss asset manager and renewables investor Capital Dynamics.