Commercial & Industrial PV

TotalEnergies ENEOS, a distributed solar joint venture of TotalEnergies and ENEOS, has installed a 1 MW rooftop solar plant for Yanmar’s industrial engine production facility in India.

Union Bank of India will provide a low-cost loan with nil or minimum collateral to finance MSME rooftop PV projects executed by Tata Power Solar.

The distributed solar solutions provider will be supported by a strengthened local management team to meet its installed PV target of 1 GW.

With installers who cater to African businesses making the headlines this year, Jasper Graf von Hardenberg – whose C&I solar business was recently bought by Shell – explains here how the story of the continent’s commercial and industrial (C&I) solar segment was far from an overnight success.

SolarX Grand Challenge aims to promote entrepreneurship and innovation and discover local solutions to meet the energy gap through solar energy solutions in the African region.

The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) has signed a $10 million grant agreement with the International Solar Alliance (ISA) to boost the deployment of solar energy in developing countries.

A new report says solar generation helped seven Asian countries avoid $34 billion in fossil fuel costs in the first half of 2022. The majority of these savings were in China ($21 billion). Japan avoided $5.6 billion in fossil fuel costs and India saved $4.2 billion.

Corporations in the Asia-Pacific region are set to contract a record 7 GW of renewable capacity in 2022, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie. Solar accounts for 57% of the region’s contracted corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) to date. India, Australia and Taiwan account for 89% of overall capacity in the region.

Mahindra & Mahindra has incorporated Emergent Solren as a wholly-owned subsidiary of its arm Mahindra Holdings.

The State Bank of India (SBI) has signed the agreement with KfW Development Bank for availing a second low-interest loan of €150 million. It will use the amount to finance solar farms with outputs between 50 and 250 MW.