‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar that recently had started commercial operation of its largest wave of PV power plants in Japan, has successfully completed construction and started commercial operation of a 27.3MWp plant in Tottori Prefecture, Japan.

The Turnbull government’s draft outline of a clean energy target reportedly attempts to divorce the mechanism from emission reduction trajectories, in the latest sign of the Coalition’s commitment to coal and its attempts to put the brakes on a rapid transition to a renewables-based grid.

A start-up mortgage broker is pushing for major lenders to bundle home loans with finance for solar panel and battery storage installation.

Chinese group BYD will provide solar panels with a production capacity of 180 megawatts to Brazilian company Solatio Gestão de Projectos Solares, of Spanish group ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, according to a contract signed on Wednesday.