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On July 30, the Department of Electronic Information of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized a symposium for the PV industry, focusing on the three recently released mandatory national standards—*Safety Requirements for PV Modules*, *Nameplate Labeling Requirements for PV Modules*, and *Energy Efficiency Limits and Energy Efficiency Grades for Crystalline Silicon PV Modules and Inverters*—to conduct centralized Q&A, address industry concerns, and plan key next steps. The meeting invited PV manufacturing enterprises, testing organizations, standardization bodies, metrology institutions, and other entities to participate, and held in-depth exchanges on interpreting standard clauses, unifying testing methods, and metrological traceability requirements. Experts from the standard drafting group provided point-by-point responses and systematic explanations to the key and difficult issues of common concern to enterprises, helping them accurately grasp the core essence of the standards, eliminate misunderstandings, and ensure faithful implementation of the standards.

State-owned Electricity Generation Bangladesh has issued a tender for the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the 220MW Sonagazi solar project in Feni district, southeastern Bangladesh. The project was approved last December after receiving backing from the Islamic Development Bank. The selected developer will have 18 months to complete construction, with bids due by Sept. 15 and a bid security requirement of BDT 310 million or USD 2.5 million. IRENA data show Bangladesh’s solar capacity reached 1.146GW by the end of last year, up 300MW from the previous year.