Solar Manufacturing News

First Solar brings modules to roof segment
The U.S. utility-scale PV leader is going small. After years of avoiding distributed generation, it is currently providing its Series 6 modules for "projects as well as customers of all shapes and sizes."
Sep 10, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, USA, First Solar, North America, Darin Green
Aiko Solar profits struggle with solar cell cost decreases but profits up 30% in H1 2020
Significant merchant solar cell producer Aiko Solar might have increased initially half year revenue 30% compared to the prior year duration, but COVID-19 and solar cell typical cost declines, caused by weak demand, sent out internet profits falling by 68% year-on-year.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, c-si manufacturing, solar cell, monocrystalline wafer, PERC, aiko solar, covid-19
Solar is essential to develop the France of 2030
KilowattSol CEO Xavier Daval has actually criticized the absence of references to solar in the French government's post-Covid recuperation strategy, which has designated EUR30 billion to the power shift. The head of the PV technical advisory states solar must become a lot more main to France's critical choices as well as China must not be enabled to preserve its near-monopoly on PV panel manufacturing.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, France, Europe, Xavier Daval, covid-19
Game changer: Violet Power to supply 50-year solar panel guarantee with US-made IBC innovation
Coming out of stealth-mode, US-based integrated PV panel production startup, Violet Power intends to interfere with the PV industry with internal manufacturing of high-efficiency IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) solar cells. The company will certainly use cell-to-module 'flex circuit' as well as thermal plastic encapsulant innovation in a glass/glass setup that will have a solar panel guarantee of 50 years, greater than three times the standard in the market, today.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, USA, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, monocrystalline wafer, North America, REC Silicon, sunpower corporation, violet power, interdigitated back contact, wafering, isc konstanz
GCL-Poly breaks ground on new polysilicon center
Polysilicon producer GCL-Poly has started construction on the first phase of a brand-new 54,000 MT polysilicon manufacturing center.
Sep 8, 2020 // Manufacturing News, polysilicon, GCL-Poly, siemens process, fbr process
Modular systems to generate perovskite-silicon cells on six-inch wafers
Researchers in Germany are scaling up initiatives to bring perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell innovation into commercial scale manufacturing. The scientists state production cells of that kind is feasible on widely-available six-inch silicon wafers as well as modular systems are being created to do so at scale.
Sep 8, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Germany, Europe, solar cell, Bernd Stannowski
ReneSola Forms JV to Establish 3 GW Solar PV Manufacturing Facility
ReneSola as well as Zhongnan Industry have chosen to enter into a JV to set up a Solar PV manufacturing center with an annual production ability of 3 GW in China.
Sep 8, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, modules, renesola, International, Sky Wang, zheng lei
Ginlong Solis' PV inverter sales established new documents
PV inverter supplier Ginlong Solis has set new quarterly as well as half-year earnings figures as the firm remains to broaden its worldwide footprint and also string inverter item profile.
Sep 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Inverters, China, pv power plants, Asia, solar-plus-storage, residential, pv string inverter, ginlong solis technologies
GoodWe marks 'brand-new phase' as it finishes IPO, notes on Shanghai Stock Exchange
Inverter producer GoodWe has actually detailed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, with the business backing its IPO to aid it go after a new growth method.
Sep 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Inverters, IPO, inverter, GoodWe, shanghai stock exchange, Rong Shen
New manufacturing technique for antimony sulfide-selenide PV cells
Chinese researchers have discovered a brand-new hydrothermal method for the straight deposition of antimony sulfide-selenide films. They utilized ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid to regulate the response system, giving the film a flat, portable surface morphology. It has a performance of 10.5%, an open-circuit voltage of 664 mV, a short-circuit current of 23.8 mA centimeters − 2, and a fill element of 66.3%.
Sep 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Asia, PV cells
Perovskites in space
Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich have actually loaded a selection of perovskite and also natural solar cells onto a rocket, and also sent it right into orbit 240 kilometers over the planet's surface. Their outcomes demonstrate strong capacity for such technologies to power satellites and also even deep space goals.
Sep 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Germany, Europe, solar cell, perovskites, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Andreas Meyer
Adani currently the world's largest solar power designer
India's biggest private-sector thermal power producer-- which ranked as the sixth-largest solar gamer internationally in 2019-- has actually climbed to the top place adhering to a Solar Energy Corporation of India (Seci) award to create 8 GW of Indian solar project capability.
Sep 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, SECI, Asia, Adani
India's Waaree eyes United States push following 300MW California order
Indian PV producer Waaree Energies is eyeing a significant push in the US market after receiving an order for greater than 300MW of mono PERC modules in the country.
Sep 4, 2020 // Manufacturing News, California, USA, India, Asia, mono perc, North America, waaree, Sunil Rathi, module supply deals
Zebra IBC cell with 24% efficiency transfers to large-scale production
Netherlands based supplier Energyra today presented a brand-new back get in touch with module, which it has actually created in partnership with Dutch study institute TNO and also Germany's ISC Konstanz. A prototype module was unveiled the other day in a small discussion at Energyra's factory in Zaandam, Netherlands. The company is targeting large-scale production by the end of 2020.
Sep 4, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Europe, Netherlands, Energyra, Zebra IBC, Gaëtan Masson
Hanwha Q Cells to use most powerful panels in Europe
The South Korean PV producers is bringing its three most effective photovoltaic panels to Europe. All of them are based upon its Q.antum Duo Z technology, which lowers the gaps in between cells and increase module effectiveness by 4% in loved one terms.
Sep 4, 2020 // Manufacturing News, South Korea, Asia, PV module, Hanwha Q Cells