Solar Manufacturing News

Gigantic agrivoltaic project in China
The Baofeng Group is building a 1 GW solar park which is hosting a goji berry ranch in the Binhe New District on the eastern financial institutions of the Yellow River in the Ningxia Province. Around 640 MW have so far been grid-connected. Huawei is offering the inverters for the project.
Sep 3, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, China, Asia, Huawei, agrivoltaic project, Baofeng Group
Upside down pyramid-based PERC solar cell with 21.4% efficiency
A Chinese research study group has developed a PERC cell on an industrial 180-μm-thick monocrystalline silicon wafer with a typical size of 156 × 156 mm2. The cell has an open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 0.677 V, a short short-circuit current (ISC) of 9.63 A, and also a fill factor of 80.30%.
Sep 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Asia, efficiency, PERC solar cell
South Korea bets on tandem solar technologies
The South Korean federal government has actually released a new roadmap to support R&D activities in the solar industry. The paper shows the country's solar manufacturing market might be motivated to go with high-efficiency and also pricey panels based upon tandem solar cells.
Sep 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, South Korea, solar cells, Asia, MOTIE
Senegal presents VAT exception for off-grid solar items
The Senegalese federal government is aiming to increase access to solar energy in backwoods by decreasing VAT on PV panels, inverters, solar thermal collectors and various other items in an initiative to achieve global power gain access to in the nation by 2025.
Sep 2, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Inverters, Grids, Africa, Gogla, Senegal, Namory Doumbia
Q CELLS debuts firm's greatest power solar module in Europe
Q CELLS will certainly introduce its greatest power and also highest possible effectiveness solar modules to date right into European markets over the coming weeks.
Sep 1, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Q CELLS, pv modules, residential solar, monocrystalline module, Maengyoon Kim
Scaling up solar production in India
A brand-new research study by CEEW Centre for Energy Finance assesses the competitive advantage that China has over India and provides a suite of short-term and lasting treatments needed for a globally competitive solar manufacturing market in India.
Sep 1, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Market Research, India, Asia, CEEW Centre for Energy Finance
Double-Sided Solar Panels Follow the Sun for Cost-Effective Energy
Researchers combined bifacial photovoltaic panels as well as single-axis tracking to improve energy generation by 35 percent.
Aug 31, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Asia, Singapore, bifacial solar panels, Carlos Rodríguez-Gallegos
Enphase microinverters for high-power modules
The United States microinverter producer has now brought its inverter remedy for industrial as well as commercial solar to Australia and Europe. The gadget appropriates for modules with power output varying from 295 to 450 W and has a European efficiency of 96.5%.
Aug 31, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Inverters, Australia, Europe, Oceania, North America, Enphase, United States
New dopants might enhance PV glass efficiency
According to a British-Swedish research team, the down‐shifting process for solar glass manufacturing can be enhanced via making use of 2 dopant cations that produce no absorption bands. The doping with these substances is claimed to minimize the UV transmission while likewise maintaining the glass free from absorption in the visible as well as near-infrared ranges.
Aug 31, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Sweden, Europe, PV glass
Trina Solar module shipments hit new record high in initial fifty percent 2020
' Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) participant, Trina Solar has actually reported its initial economic results since delisting from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) almost 4 years ago, beginning with record initially half year PV module shipments of 5,840 MW, a 37% rise of the prior year duration.
Aug 28, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, solar cell, Trina Solar
Exoskeletons for photovoltaic panel placing
Endesa, the Spanish system of Italian power team Enel, is using a brand-new technology in the construction of 3 solar parks in southern Spain.
Aug 28, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Spain, Enel, Europe, Endesa, pv powerplants
Developers want customizeds responsibility on photovoltaic panels delayed
The Solar Power Developers Association (SPDA) stated 1 year guard duty extension had already caused escalated capital prices. Any type of extra tariff obstacles would certainly endanger the Government's '100 GW by 2022' target.
Aug 28, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, SPDA
Enel, French PV institute improve heterojunction cell efficiency by 0.37%.
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has licensed the effectiveness of the cell, which was made with a standard M2 wafer.
Aug 28, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, France, Enel, Europe, efficiency, heterojunction cell
Daily information: SunPower and Maxeon split, Bulgaria to host 400 MW of PV
SunPower and also Maxeon Solar Technologies completed their strategy to split into two independent entities, while Austrian solar designer Energy BG 1 exposed plans to develop a significant unsubsidized solar project in Bulgaria.
Aug 28, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, SunPower, Europe, Asia, Singapore, Maxeon, Tom Werner, Bulgaria, Energy BG 1, Shiv Nadar University
'Bigger is not always much better'
Longi will certainly hold off on added panel output increases past the 600 W+ range until it can settle a number of key difficulties, a firm speaker informed pv magazine. Those impressive issues consist of low cell manufacturing yield, system compatibility, concerns regarding module transport, as well as hotspot-related failure dangers, along with the need for mechanical loading examinations.
Aug 28, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Tongwei, China, JA Solar, JinkoSolar, Asia, Trina Solar, LONGi, Hongbin Fang