Solar Manufacturing News

Jinko Solar the globe's largest module service provider once more in 2019
The solar titan delivered 14.2 GW of components in 2015, up 33% on 2018 for the high-water mark of one more year controlled by Chinese producers.
Feb 12, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, Jinko Solar, UK, China, First Solar, Europe, Asia, North America, Ankit Mathur
OCI closing Korean solar quality polysilicon plants on US$ 636m problems cost
Significant Korean polysilicon manufacturer, OCI Chemical is to shut 2 solar quality polysilicon plants in Korea as manufacturing expense are nearly dual the present record low ASPs.
Feb 12, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, polysilicon, c-si manufacturing, wacker chemie, Asia, Korea, oci chemical, hanwha chemical, tongwei group
AKASOL indications EUR20 million e-mobility battery 'Gigafactories' take care of Manz
Manz AG, making tools distributor, has actually approved a EUR20 million (US$ 21.83 million) take care of "high performance" battery manufacturer AKASOL for prepared 'gigafactories' in Germany as well as in the United States.
Feb 12, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Germany, Europe, Manz AG, North America, lithium-ion battery, AKASOL
Cutting optical losses in tandem perovskite cells
Spanish scientists have actually revealed a monolithic nano-structured perovskite silicon tandem gadget they assert can lower optical losses by greater than a 3rd contrasted to planar perovskite cells of the very same kind.
Feb 12, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Spain, solar cells, Europe, perovskite
Tongwei to open up brand-new 30 GW cell fab in Sichuan
Building of the $2.87 billion manufacturing facility is arranged to begin in March and also production task must be introduced in 2021.
Feb 12, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Tongwei, China, Asia
Coronavirus can set you back Chinese battery manufacturers 26 GWh of outcome
Since of the break out, WoodMac experts claim the quantity of brand-new battery production capability included in the country this year might drop by as much as 10%. With Tesla's Shanghai gigafactory influenced by the prolonged new-year-holiday closure, the expert warned of possible supply scarcities for Australia as well as the U.S. as well as U.K.
Feb 12, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, LG CHEM, TESLA, South Korea, China, United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, Asia, woodmac, Oceania, North America
Japanese researchers test printing on perovskite
Scientists from 3 Japanese colleges have actually established a procedure based upon inkjet printing they claim might decrease the expense of perovskite solar battery manufacturing. The team produced little cells with effectiveness as high as 13.19%, a number they declare is assuring sufficient to use the opportunity of scaling approximately business manufacturing.
Feb 11, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Japan, Asia, perovskite
Govt Ready To Unload its 100% Risk in CEL; Welcomes EoI by Mar 16
After BPCL and also Air India, federal government is currently readied to privatise its solar items producer Central Electronics Ltd (CEL) and also welcomed bids for offering its 100 percent shareholding with monitoring control.
Feb 11, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, solar cell, solar module, CEL
SolarEdge gets JET qualification in Japan
Significant PV inverter producer, Solardge Technologies has actually acquired JET accreditation (Japan Electrical Safety as well as Environment Technology Laboratory) in Japan for its solitary stage little and also domestic industrial inverter array.
Feb 10, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Japan, Asia, SolarEdge, residential, pv inverters
Trump solar tolls falling short to start United States upstream turn-around, evaluation discovers
The protectionism people head of state Donald Trump has actually fallen short to stop the decrease of residential PV cell manufacturers and also will certainly not be sufficient to beat China's "state commercialism", a United States evaluation has actually discovered.
Feb 10, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Tariffs, USA, China, Asia, Donald Trump, North America, trade war, usitc
Algerian module manufacturer Condor declare bankruptcy
The electronic devices maker has a 130 MW capability module manufacturing center and also possesses a fifty percent risk in French-Algerian module manufacturer Aurés Solaire, which runs a 30 MW panel manufacturing facility in the nation.
Feb 10, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, bankruptcy, Algerian, Condor
Silicon heterojunction solar cell hits 23.5% performance with brand-new hole-selective get in touch with
Scientists from Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have actually utilized molybdenum oxide as the hole-selective call in an heterojuction silicon cell. The researchers declare the substance can take on conventional get in touches with in spite of a reduced degree of optimization.
Feb 10, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, solar cell, heterojunction, silicon, Switzerland, EPFL
JinkoSolar Retains leading Spot in Global Solar PV Module Shipments for 2019: GlobalData
JinkoSolar has actually become the leading business in regards to worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) module deliveries in 2019, GlobalData has actually disclosed
Feb 10, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, JinkoSolar, Asia, PV module, Globaldata, International, Ankit Mathur
Panasonic gets to 16.09% performance with perovskite solar module utilizing inkjet-based finishing
Panasonic has actually attained the globe's greatest power conversion effectiveness of 16.09% for a perovskite solar module (aperture location 802 cm2: 30-cm x 30-cm x 2-mm thick) by creating light-weight modern technology utilizing a glass substratum as well as a large-area finish approach based upon inkjet printing.
Feb 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, NEDO, Panasonic, perovskite, solar module
Searching concealed electrical power in crystalline solar batteries with brand-new encapsulation strategy
Korean scientists assert it is feasible to draw out greater than 10% of 'surprise electrical power' in crystalline solar batteries making use of a brand-new encapsulation procedure based upon poly‐dimethylsiloxane finishes as well as a three-dimensional module framework. Contrasted to EVA movies, the brand-new finishing is stated to prevent removing short-wavelength light
Feb 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cells, Asia, Korea, poly‐dimethylsiloxane