Solar Manufacturing News

Special solar panels for agrivoltaics
BayWa r.e. as well as GroenLeven have created unique monocrytalline photovoltaic panels for 5 pilot agrivoltaic projects they are releasing in the Netherlands. They are examining weather-resistant 240 W glass-glass panels with various transparency degrees.
Jul 23, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Europe, baywa r.e., GroenLeven, agrivoltaic, Willem De Vries
Pressing the boundaries of PV cell level of sensitivity
Researchers in Australia and also the United States have taken care of to 'upconvert' light from below the silicon bandgap right into high-energy light that can be caught by silicon solar cells.
Jul 23, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Australia, Oceania, North America, Tim Schmidt, Jared Cole, Elham Gholizadeh
Britishvolt and Welsh Govt Sign MoU for 30 GWh Battery Factory
Maker Britishvolt has authorized an MOU with the Welsh Government to establish a readily viable 30 GWh battery manufacturing plant in South Wales.
Jul 22, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Storage, battery, Lithium ion, Britishvolt, Wales, Orral Nadjari
China Solar Manufactures up 15.7% in Jan-June 2020, claims CPIA
The China Photovoltaic Solar Association (CPIA), an industry body of solar producers in the country, has introduced that manufacturers in the nation created 15.7 percent higher manufacturing of photovoltaic panels, at 59 GW in the very first six months of this year.
Jul 22, 2020 // Manufacturing News, India, China, Asia
Solar modules made from perovskite product get a boost of stability as well as performance to change the sector
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and also Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and great security. Made using a type of material called perovskites, these solar modules can keep a high performance for over 2000 hours. Their searchings for, reported 20th July 2020 in leading journal, Nature Energy, have lightened up prospects of commercialization.
Jul 21, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar modules, efficiency, perovskites, OIST, Yabing Qi, Luis Ono
Vikram Solar plans 3 GW solar manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu
The design, procurement and building and construction services service provider-- which has a 1.2 GW module production center near Kolkata-- will establish a wafer, cell as well as module production website in Tamil Nadu under a five-year timescale.
Jul 21, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, Tamil Nadu, Asia, Vikram Solar
Flexible solar panel for BIPV from Sunport
The module is readily available in five versions with power result ranging from 310 W to 330 W as well as performances between 20.22 and also 21.53%. The Chinese manufacturer asserts the BIPV panel has an oustanding versatility with minimal contour span of 25 centimeters.
Jul 21, 2020 // BIPV, Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Asia, solar panel, flexible, Sunport
Solar film with incorporated optics to raise performance of PV panels
Finnish firm ICS has actually developed a foil which it asserts can dramatically increase the return of photovoltaic panels, when put on the edges of a PV module. Germany's Fraunhofer ISE has actually validated that the increase in efficiency for conventional solar components with the solar movie is ranging from 5% to 10%.
Jul 21, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, Finland, ICS, Kari Rinko
Trina exposes 600 W module
The Chinese giant has actually jumped ahead of rivals who just recently revealed their intent to work in the direction of the next generation of mega panels by pledging to have its 600 W Vertex item on sale by the end of March.
Jul 21, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, Trina, Zhang Yingbin
Jinko asserts 24.79% performance for n-type monocrystalline cell
The Chinese producer has actually declared a world document for a large-size, contact-passivated solar cell. The result, certified by Germany's Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin, betters the company's previous document by almost 0.6%.
Jul 20, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cell, Jinko, efficiency, Chine
New protocols determine solar cell failings during manufacturing
2 new pass/fail procedures are stated to be able to different cells which offer high hot-spot possibility, reveal high current leakage as well as demonstrate intermediate actions. The arranging method relies upon a hands-on solar simulator, an infrared cam as well as a tool to gauge seclusion.
Jul 20, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Spain, Europe, solar cell
ReNew Power plans foray into solar cell and also module production
The Haryana-based designer will spend Rs 1500-2000 crore in establishing the solar cell and also module manufacturing facility, which will at first have a production ability of 2 GW per year.
Jul 18, 2020 // Manufacturing News, India, Asia, ReNew Power, Sumant Sinha
URE introduces Taiwan manufacturing facility disposal
The Taiwanese supplier said it has sold its Jhunan Kebei plant to a Taiwan-based manufacturer of masks for semiconductor production. However, it will enhance capacity at its manufacturing facility in Tainan by as much as 200 MW in the third quarter.
Jul 18, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Taiwan, Jhunan Kebei
How the cracks are developing
Scientists in the United Kingdom have examined the development of cracks in PV cells, validating that the heats cells are exposed to during soldering for interconnection are a leading root cause of breaking. Their searchings for will certainly help future study right into module integrity and also forecasts of just how fractures are most likely to form.
Jul 17, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, UK, Europe, University of Wolverhampton
Debt consolidation in the French solar module industry
Two module makers, Systovi and Voltec Solar, plan to sign up with forces to create a bigger gamer in the French solar manufacturing area.
Jul 17, 2020 // Manufacturing News, France, Europe, PV module, Systovi, Voltec Solar, François Guérin