Solar Manufacturing News

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.

JinkoSolar has boosted its PV manufacturing capacity expansion plans for 2022 once again even with margin pressure impacting its profits, pointing out speeding up demand in Europe and also past.

US solar cell supplier CubicPV as well as Waaree Energies, Ltd, a leading domestic solar module producer, have actually introduced that they have become part of a multi-year supply agreement in which CubicPV will supply, per annum, 1 GW of silicon cells to Waaree.

Both GCL Technology as well as Daqo New Energy have leapfrogged Wacker Chemie in Bernreuter Research's annual polysilicon top 10 rankings, completing a China-based leading three.

German carmaker Volkswagen AG (ETR: VOW) will power its electric car factory in the eastern city of Zwickau with electricity from a nearby 5.3-MW solar plant that will certainly be commissioned by solar developer Enerparc AG in the coming weeks.

JinkoSolar announced it has actually reached a solar conversion efficiency of 25.7% for its huge 182-mm n-type monocrystalline TOPCon solar cell. This result has been individually verified by the National Institute of Metrology, China.

Solar polysilicon and cell producer Tongwei has specified strategies to dramatically boost its manufacturing capacity over the following four years after validating a six-fold increase in net profit in Q1 2022.

First Solar will supply 1GWdc of its thin film modules to PV project designer Leeward Renewable Energy as part of a multi-year procurement arrangement in between the firms.

Indian group Borosil Renewables is obtaining Europe's largest solar glass maker. With major websites in Germany and Liechtenstein, Borosil intends to boost manufacturing capacity to 2,600 tonnes per day, making it feasible to provide solar glass for greater than 15 GW of PV modules from 2025.

Chinese module supplier Astronergy is to launch its initial TOPCon n-type modules under its ASTRO series.