Solar Manufacturing News

Chinese solar supplier Risen Energy has started production at its 120μm heterojunction (HJT) solar cell production line in Changzhou City, China.

Hanwha Solutions has unveiled plans to spend US$ 320 million in cell and module production capacity developments in the United States and also Korea.

Canadian PV module producer Heliene has actually seen extraordinary demand for its modules complying with the United States Department of Commerce's (DOC) decision to explore alleged anti-dumping and also circumvention (AD/CVD) by solar producers in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and also Cambodia, which continues to spread chaos throughout the US solar market.

European solar manufacturing start-up Carbon has partnered with the International Solar Energy Research Center (ISC) Konstanz as it pursues a multi-gigawatt cell manufacturing facility in Europe.

Solar PV tools provider Mondragon Assembly is to supply an automatic manufacturing line to Dutch vendor Solarge.

As costs in China increase, and also confronted with tariff walls in several markets, numerous Chinese makers have sought manufacturing locations in South East Asia, notably Vietnam. The trend is not expected to mellow out anytime quickly, although nations and major markets like India will certainly expect to see more rate of interest as well for production.

Solar panel glass maker Borosil Renewables has announced that it will invest Rs 1,500 crore over the following 2 years to broaden its capacity by nearly 2.5 times and supply glass for 15 GW of solar modules by FY25.

Leading solar manufacturer LONGi has actually disclosed it expects to finish 2022 with solar wafer, cell and also module production capacity of 150GW, 60GW and also 85GW respectively.

Dutch investment fund Teslin Participaties has joined Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) in supplying development capital to HyET Solar, a Dutch programmer of flexible and lightweight solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) innovation.

Sharp's new IEC 61215 and also IEC 61730-certified-certified panel attributes 144 half-cells based on M10 wafers and a 10-busbar style. Its operating temperature level coefficient is -0.349% per degree Celsius and its power tolerance rises to 5%.

Solar polysilicon, wafer and also cell prices have all risen once again in the past week as demand continued to overtake supply, with COVID-19 lockdowns in China remaining to interfere with the value chain.

Polysilicon producer Daqo New Energy has actually received authorization from the Shanghai Stock Exchange for an exclusive offering on China's A-share market to sustain its capability expansion.

Inverter manufacturer SolarEdge gained from high need for its products in Europe to raise revenues to a quarterly record while browsing a scarcity of digital components.

Setup of photovoltaic panels for free onto residences has become a subject of confrontation and debate in between the Mexico's ruling party of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as well as Marko Cortes, leader of the center-right National Action Party (PAN) considering that Sunday when the latter argued in favour of the proposal surveying its renewable resource credentials.

Heterojunction cell and also module supplier Meyer Burger has actually started development of a brand-new module facility with an additional 400MW in Germany to cater for European demand.