Solar Manufacturing News

The European Commission (EC) on Friday formally released the block's Solar Photovoltaic Industry Alliance, seeking to scale up residential photovoltaic (PV) production and also reduced supply risks by commercialising "Made in Europe" products.

Kontrolmatik Technologies, using its subsidiary Pomega Energy Storage Technologies, means to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Colleton County, South Carolina. The 500,000-sq-ft facility will certainly have an initial production capability of 3 GWh and also create LFP cells for grid-scale energy storage applications. Production is expected to begin in 2024.

On a Nov. 30 webinar with ROTH Capital Partners, Enphase CEO Badri Kothandaraman introduced the firm intends to start four to 6 new united state production lines in 2023. Enphase will be dealing with 3 agreement producers, two of which are current companions, to create 4.8 to 7.2 GWAC of U.S. microinverters per year.

Goldi Solar remains to contribute to its range of offerings in the Mono Perc and also bifacial segments.

Swedish manufacturer of thin film CIGS solar cells, Midsummer has actually announced the signing of letters of intent (LOI) with 6 Swedish and foreign company partners for an overall of 107 MW of photovoltaic panels. With the release of 224 MW of solar cells today and also previously revealed agreements with roofing system product and also structure organizations in Italy, there are now 13 offtake agreements in position, amounting to greater than 400 MW of photovoltaic panels.

Countries like United States, India push for domestic solar manufacturing 'Dare to fight, and be good at fighting,' trade official says

Talesun Solar Co Ltd, a photovoltaics (PV) manufacturing unit of China's Zhongli Group, has actually joined pressures with commercial tools maker MEM Group to build a 1-GW photovoltaic or pv (PV) module manufacturing facility in Turkey.

Spanish solar energy expert Soltec Power Holdings SA (BME: SOL) said on Monday that it has signed a contract with renewables solid Enel Green Power Espana to build a solar trackers manufacturing facility around Aragon, northeastern Spain, in an area where Enel Green Power's parent firm used to run a now destroyed coal-fired nuclear power plant.

The Norwegian solar firm REC Group has actually started production of the 5th generation of its TwinPeak modules.

China's Daqo New Energy Corp (NYSE: DQ) stated on Monday that of its subsidiaries has actually received a five-year agreement to provide high-purity polysilicon to a leading solar producer in the nation.

Chinese solar panel producer LONGi introduced it has actually gotten to a performance of 26.81% for its HJT silicon solar cells on full-size silicon wafers with mass production. The record was validated by the Institute for Solar Power Research in Hamelin (ISFH).

The united state solar market will certainly soon have the ability to make the most of locally produced solar cells. Enel North America, through its affiliate 3Sun USA, revealed its plans to develop a silicon solar cell production center in the USA with an anticipated minimum manufacturing capacity of 3 GW.

US producer's most current contracts with Intersect Power will provide projects due online from 2025

The recommended facility is expected to have a minimum manufacturing capacity of 3 GW. It could be scaled as much as 6 GW as well as is anticipated to develop as much as 1,500 new straight work by 2025.

First Solar has actually chosen northern Alabama as the area for its 4th U.S. solar module manufacturing facility. The new thin-film manufacturing facility is part of the previously announced financial investment that will certainly grow First Solar's American manufacturing footprint to over 10 GW by 2025.