Solar Manufacturing News

Module-level power electronics vendor Tigo Energy has filed an intellectual property (IP) infringement lawsuit in the United States against inverter producer SMA Solar Technology America.

Hundreds of United States solar and power storage space firms have implored US lawmakers to pass a budget reconciliation bill having solar downstream and manufacturing supports.

A subsidiary of polysilicon manufacturer Daqo New Energy is anticipating net profit throughout the first half of 2022 to be greater than four times greater than the same period last year.

After protecting a 750-MW module supply order with First Solar in April, solar programmer Origis Energy has authorized a master supply contract for more than 700 MW with Boviet Solar. Origis Energy will certainly utilize Boviet Solar's Vega Series 550-W bifacial modules for U.S utility scale solar projects. Delivery of the PV modules is slated for 2023.

A safe change to net zero exhausts around the world will require countries to expand and also broaden the production of solar modules, whose supply chains are heavily concentrated in China, according to new research from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Researchers at EPFL's Photovoltaics and also Thin Film Electronics Laboratory as well as CSEM's Sustainable Energy Centre have actually declared two world records by attaining an effectiveness of over 30% for perovskite-on-silicon-tandem solar cells.

Indian energy titan Tata Power has authorized a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian state government of Tamil Nadu to invest roughly INR3,000 crores (US$ 380 million) in setting up a 4GW cell and 4GW module manufacturing facility in the state.

Trina Solar New Energy Industrial Park project will properly cover every stage of PV module production, from polysilicon construction to modules made with 210 and also N-type modern technology. Trina claims that the facility will have production lines that can create a mixed total of 10 GW of wafer slices, 10 GW of cells, 10 GW of modules, and 15 GW of auxiliaries for modules, along with 35 GW of mono silicon as well as 300,000 tones of industrial silicon yearly.

Thin-film modern technologies such as cadmium telluride (CdTe) and perovskites can markedly minimize the carbon intensity of PV compared with silicon alternatives, according to scientists at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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.