Solar Manufacturing News

US renewable resource team SPI Energy Co Ltd (NASDAQ: SPI) has committed to spending USD 65.9 million (EUR 60.2 m) in a project that will increase its solar wafer as well as module production in South Carolina, according to growing demand for US-made products.

Renewable resources added 47.1 percent to Germany's gross electricity generation in the first quarter of this year, 2 percent factors greater than in the same duration last year (45.1 percent).

Chinese solar company Trina Solar Co. Ltd. stated it had actually reached the 140 gigawatt (GW) mark in cumulative solar module production by the end of March. According to the report, the firm, which was founded in 1997, produced around 30 percent of this amount-- 43.1 GW-- last year alone.

Meyer Burger will offer its product portfolio "Made in Germany, made in Switzerland" at the country's largest solar trade show, the Smart Energy Conference as well as Exhibition from May 3 to 5 in Sydney. BayWa r.e. will be Meyer Burger's first distributor in Australia.

Glass company Vitro has entered into an agreement to make glass for Very first Solar thin-film solar panels at Vitro's architectural glass production line in Cochranton, Pennsylvania. Vitro will certainly invest $93.6 million to restore and modernize the production line at its Meadville Plant.

Trina Solar launched Vertex S+ Series for rooftop solar at Solar Show Africa 2023. As per the company, the new modules are especially made for roof PV systems, offering a combination of durability, performance and aesthetics.

The state of Oklahoma would likely be one of the most appropriate location for Italian energy Enel day spa's (BIT: ENEL) suggested solar module gigafactory in the United States, the head of the team's United States solar manufacturing unit has actually told The Frontier.

The output of solar cells stood at 318 GW throughout 2022, with a regular monthly average output of 26.5 GW, and the average capacity utilisation rate was 56.18%. In 2023, the complete output is expected to be 512.7 GW, with a regular monthly standard of 42 GW.

German photovoltaic or pv (PV) inverters manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (ETR: S92) has actually begun building service a new Gigawatt Factory at its regional headquarters that is expected to increase the company's production capacity to nearly 40 GW.

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: ASTI), a Thornton, Colorado-based firm concentrated on CIGS thin-film photovoltaics (PV), has actually finished a deal to get the 15-MW roll-to-roll thin-film producing assets in Zurich of thin-film solar supplier Flisom AG.

The products will be made to EXIMPROD GRUP of Romania of 200MW ASTRO N n-type TOPCon PV modules. The modules will certainly be used in the building and construction of the team's 5 solar projects in Romania.

Scientists at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and also Technology (KAUST) have actually established a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with the world's highest possible power conversion effectiveness (PCE) of 33.2%, according to an announcement on Monday.

There are several steps in the silicon photovoltaic panel manufacturing procedure: silicon is melted as well as shaped right into ingots that are sliced right into wafers, which then develop into cells that are ultimately constructed right into a photovoltaic panel.

A team of scientists from the University of Toronto has developed a triple-junction perovskite solar cell with record performance by getting over an essential restriction of previous layouts.

Ongoing obstacles in solar cell manufacturing may partly discuss why non-renewable power resources-- such as coal, oil, as well as natural gas-- have eclipsed current optoelectronic gadgets.