Solar Manufacturing News

Tongwei has actually ended up being the latest upstream solar maker to raise costs as the cost of basic materials remains to spiral.

The upcoming factory will employ unique innovations in the industry like high efficiency mono passivated emitter and also rear contact (PERC) and tunnel oxide passivated contacts (TOPCON). Websol additionally said that it's communicating with power generators to aid it provide solar cells and also modules on a lasting basis.

The solar sector supply chain's jitters continued this week after polysilicon prices hit one more high, driving silicon wafer prices better up as well.

Shanghai Headquartered solar cell & module maker, JinkoSolar has begun the building of its latest n-type solar cell and module production plant in Jianshan, Haining city. JinkoSolar will create 11GW of n-type cells with an average performance of 25%. The firm is declaring that it could be the world's very first 10GW-scale factory to manufacture solar cells of above 25% effectiveness.

Chinese module manufacturer DMEGC has launched its new monocrystalline PERC photovoltaic panels with power conversion efficiencies of up to 20.91% and also temperature coefficients of -0.33% per degree celsius ending up being fairly helpful for the maximum system voltages of 1,000 W or 1,500 W.

United States solar tracker supplier Nextracker as well as steel producer BCI Steel have reopened the Bethlehem steel manufacturing factory in Leetsdale, Pittsburgh that will certainly refine steel and also create solar tracker equipment for utility-scale solar projects.

Solar glass company Xinyi Solar has provided a profit caution after the price of solar glass fell and the price of key components and also power inputs rose.

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), among the globe's largest vendors of aluminium, is to go into the silicon metal market with a solar energy plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Solar supplier LONGi has set a world record conversion effectiveness of 26.5% for silicon heterojunction (HJT) PV cells.

Greece-based battery maker Sunlight Group has received EUR275 million (US$ 290 million) in car loan funding to expand production and study.

Sungrow was the globe's greatest PV inverter business in 2021, delivering 47.1 GW of products as well as increasing its manufacturing centers in Asia, according to research company IHS Markit.

Polysilicon prices have actually continued to climb up in China in the middle of limited supply as suppliers are hit by power rationing.

German laser engineering company 3D Micromac is to supply its laser cutting modern technology to Enel Green Power's 3Sun gigafactory in Sicily, Italy as the company strives to expand its manufacturing capacity of high-efficiency modules to 3GW by 2024.

United States solar panels maker First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) revealed today that it has authorized a framework contract with Minneapolis-based developer National Grid Renewables for the supply of 2 GW DC of thin-film PV modules.

Trina Solar has actually started building on a vast new industrial park in the central Chinese province of Qinghai that will cover practically the whole PV manufacturing chain from polysilicon manufacturing completely to modules.