Solar Manufacturing News

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.

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.

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has licensed the effectiveness of the cell, which was made with a standard M2 wafer.

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.

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.

Using an ingenious high-speed video clip arrangement, researchers in Germany had the ability to observe the screen-printing process utilized in solar cell metallization, on a time scale of less than 50 milliseconds. Insights into the paste's behavior and the mechanisms at the workplace during display printing will improve the procedure as well as the formulation of the silver paste it relies upon.

Centrotec, a German energy efficiency specialist, has actually obtained Switzerland's Pari Group, which holds an 80% stake in German PV module supplier Sonnenstromfabrik.

China-based PV module manufacturer ZNShine Solar plans to more than increase its manufacturing ability by 10GW over the next two years, focusing on large-area, high-efficiency modules to improve its affordable placement.

Trina Solar has actually made a PV cell by directly applying the unmodified i-TOPCon process, initially created for Cz mono wafers, to cast n-type quasi-mono silicon wafers. It claims the typical effectiveness, examined in-house with an adjusted recommendation cell, is 22.98%.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have recognized websites where hydrogen could be produced via PV electrolysis at rates varying from $1.90/ kg to $4.20/ kg in the United States by the end of the years.

Epsilon Carbon has appointed a new manufacturing center to produce artificial graphite anode products for lithium-ion batteries. It intends to spend US$ 70 million over the following 5 years to increase the plant's capacity to 50,000 tons.

The Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as well as the Institute for Materials as well as Components in Electronics at the University of Hannover, in addition to Centrotherm, Singulus, Meyer Burger as well as Von Ardenne are associated with a study project focused on achieving a 27% conversion effectiveness for silicon solar cells based on perovskite.

Scientists in Australia took a close consider the long-term efficiency of passivation layers in silicon solar cells, as well as found a surprising procedure of degradation and regrowth at the office within the product. The outcomes could have ramifications on the procedures used in industrial scale solar cell manufacturing.

Researchers from the United States have utilized new passivated get in touch with styles to show a screen-printed silicon heterojunction solar cell on 40 micron thick standalone wafers.

Chinese photovoltaics (PV) maker Wuxi Suntech Power Co Ltd has opened a brand-new 3.5-GW wise module manufacturing facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu district.