Solar Manufacturing News

Swift Current Energy, an independent power manufacturer (IPP) as well as renewables developer with a 9-GW-plus pipeline, has placed a new multi-year order with First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) for the supply of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, even larger than the prior one.

Microinverter maker Enphase has announced plans to launch four to 6 manufacturing lines in the United States by the second half of 2023 to capitalize on manufacturing production tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Microinverters are qualified for up to 11 cents/ WAC in manufacturing tax credits in the IRA.

Subsidiaries Xinjiang Daqo as well as Inner Mongolia Daqo will certainly supply this leading production business with a total quantity of 432,000 MT high-purity mono-grade polysilicon. The supplies are scheduled for January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2028.

A report presented by IRENA mentions that the solar PV market takes pride in the highest share of full time women employees in the renewable energy sector. The share stood at 40% last year.

Heterojunction Solar cells combine two various technologies into one cell-- a crystalline silicon cell sandwiched in between 2 layers of amorphous "thin-film" silicon

The principal operating subsidiary of Chinese solar module manufacturer JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd (NYSE: JKS) today published some initial results for the nine months through September 2022, showing an year-on-year enter the bottom line of up to 135.7%.

The firms call it the development of the 4-GW master supply contract (MSA) that they checked in April. First Solar held that the new arrangement reinforces a shared commitment by both the companies to enhance the domestic supply and promote lower-carbon manufacturing procedures.

The LION 390Wp promises great performance in little as well as large-scale ground or rooftop solar applications enabling more energy to be gathered because of the Heterojunction modern technology (HJT). The LION series range is offered from 375Wp and goes above 700Wp.

The deal with South Korea based Maxwell will support REC's development prepare for HJT technology based production. The Reliance had REC Group has actually introduced a significant equipment supply deal with South Korean solar equipment producer Maxwell innovations.

Symbio's HyMotive will certainly accelerate the industrialization and mass-production of its current generation fuel cell systems in its gigafactory in Saint-Fons. HyMotive will certainly establish and industrialize a new generation of innovative fuel cell systems, built on turbulent modern technology to improve StackPack performance of Symbio while drastically reducing system cost.

Swedish thin-film solar innovation firm Midsummer abdominal (STO: MIDS) will look for to expand its international manufacturing capabilities with an additional capacity of approximately 20 MW amid a more comprehensive plan that could scale up its producing to 200 MW.

China-based Worldwide Inverter player GoodWe has expanded its production capacity to 30 GW, post the inauguration of its production growth at Guangde, Anhui province of China. For GoodWe, which delights in leadership in the storage inverter area the growth adheres to the strong development as well as success it has actually had worldwide for its items, allowing the firm to sustain capacity increase from 5 GW in 2018, to 15 GW by 2020 and currently, on its way to 30 GW.

The $1.6 billion investment by ONE would create over 2,100 jobs in Van Buren Township as well as protect the future of mobility and also electrification in Michigan. As soon as operational it will have a yearly complete capacity of 20 GWh by the end of 2027 which will certainly be equivalent to 200,000 electric vehicle battery packs yearly.

Chinese scientists have actually developed a brand-new solar cell with a planar n-i-p framework and also an indium tin oxide (ITO) substratum. It additionally has a tin( IV) oxide (SnO2) barrier layer, a perovskite layer, a hole transport layer (HTL), and also a layer made of copper. It had the ability to keep around 92% of its preliminary effectiveness after 1,000 hours.

California solar electrical vehicle (EV) start-up Aptera Motors Corp has chosen Singapore-based solar cell as well as panel maker Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: MAXN) to be the cell supplier for its solar production programme.