Solar Manufacturing News

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.

Tongwei has actually announced that its subsidiaries have authorized a RMB50.9 billion (US$ 7.58 billion) silicon material sales contract for 216,100 tons with Qinghai Gaojing Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd

The US' Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) has entered into pressure today as well as thinks that any type of things "completely or partially" made in China's Xinjiang region are a product of the area's affirmed labour camps for ethnic minorities, meaning they are banned from going into the US.

The European Union (EU) Parliament has passed a new resolution condemning civils rights misuses in China's Xinjiang area and also has actually gotten in touch with its exec, the European Commission (EC), to pass tougher profession sanctions on the nation.

The tests being conducted by TUV Rheinland at cologne presently have actually until now demonstrated clear effectiveness gains from the Vertex collection of monofacials as well as bifacials. Last influence on LCOE will certainly naturally rely on the landed price of these modules for purchasers.

Makers in a variety of fields need to consider fattening their supplies as promptly as feasible to minimize an extended disturbance to international supply chains.