Solar Manufacturing News

First Solar has developed the first bifacial solar panel using their CdTe thin-film technology. Transparent back contact technology offers bifacial energy gain & lower operational temperature. First Solar investing $370 million in R&D innovation center for thin-film & tandem PV module production.

Following year onwards, the Vertex n-type series will be upgraded, with the most powerful module in the series generating more than 700 W, the firm introduced. Trina Solar, a farm that explores solar power development, has unveiled its new n-type i-TOPCon advanced technology.

Designer has partnered with a United States specialist to procedure and recycle its end-of-life modules

An international group of scientists from Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, École Polytechnique in Paris, Columbia University in New York, as well as the Free University in Berlin have actually demonstrated laser-driven control of fundamental motions of the lead halide perovskite (LHP) atomic lattice.

It was reported that on May 24, at the 16th (2023) International Solar Photovoltaic and Smart Energy (Shanghai) Event (SNEC), LONGi Green Energy Technology introduced its "STAR Innovative Ecological Cooperation Platform" and also its newly accomplished performance of 31.8% for perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells based upon industrial CZ silicon wafers.

Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: MAXN) on Thursday revealed a world-record module aperture efficiency dimension for its Maxeon 7 panel as well as a number of efficiency improvements to IBC products.

Indian solar panel producer Saatvik informed Solar Power World it is exploring alternatives to open a 1.5-GW panel manufacturing plant in the United States. Saatvik currently supports a 1.5-GW plant in Haryana, India (that must broaden to 3 GW by September 2023), and is also developing a brand-new 2.5-GW panel and cell center in Gujarat, India.

German monocrystalline wafers manufacturer NexWafe GmbH has actually raised EUR 30 million (USD 32.2 m) to quicken the building of a commercial-scale center for green solar wafers in Bitterfeld, Germany.

The world's biggest solar manufacturer slashed prices for a key component as expanding capacity in the market escalates cost competition.

The integrated project will certainly make monocrystalline silicon pull rod, silicon wafer, high-efficiency solar cells and modules. Jiangxi Jinko has actually authorized an investment framework agreement with the Management Committee of Transformation Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Zone of Shanxi Province.

ConnectDER, a United States provider of meter collars for home solar connection, has actually pulled in USD 27 million (EUR 25.1 m) in fresh capital to broaden its organization in a Series C funding round led by Energy Innovation Capital (EIC).

Chinese solar module manufacturer JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd (NYSE: JKS) made a couple of news on Wednesday in relation to its majority-owned principal operating subsidiary, including an enormous financial investment plan of CNY 56 billion (USD 7.94 bn/EUR 7.38 bn).

Aluminium Féron GmbH & Co. KG from Düren, Germany is presenting a new black backsheet for solar modules at Intersolar.

Sharp Energy Solutions Europe has launched a bifacial glass-glass module with 144 M10 TOPCon fifty percent cells and 16 busbars. The NB-JD570 has an output of 570 watts with a module efficiency of 22.07 percent.

Independent solar testing lap PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) today published its "2023 PV Module Reliability Scorecard," which names 250 model types of PV modules from 35 producers as Top Performers in PVEL's testing, the most in the company's history.