New alliance aims to break 600 W limit

• Chinese manufacturers including Trina Solar, Risen Energy and JA Solar have actually established a team to layout and create larger PV modules. The 39-member partnership also consists of inverter vendors including Huawei, Sungrow and also SMA.

The 600W+ Photovoltaic Open Innovation Ecological Alliance established by mostly China-based solar business intends to cross the 600 W module outcome threshold.

Trina Solar, the most significant producer in a partnership which also consists of Risen Energy and also JA Solar, has stated the organization will certainly build "products, systems and criteria for a next-generation modern technology platform, devoting to take full advantage of the client values of 600W+ ultra-high-power modules and also various other relevant remedies."

The team also consists of big inverter makers such as China's Huawei and also Sungrow and Germany's SMA Solar Technology. Tracker providers including China's Arctech and also Singapore-owned Nextracker are also participants of the partnership.

The complete checklist of participants is:

• Arctech Solar Holding
• China Datang
• China Energy Engineering Group Heilongjiang Electric Power Design
• China General Certification Center
• Cybrid Technologies
• DB Schenker Logistics
• DNV GL Singapore
• East China Electric Power Design Institute of ChinaPower Engineering
• Flat Glass
• Hangzhou First Applied Material
• Huawei Technologies
• Huadian New Energy Technology Development of China Huadian Engineering
• Irico (Hefei) Photovoltaic
• JA Solar Holdings
• Jiangsu Huansheng Photovoltaic
• Kelongwei Automation Equipment
• Nextracker
• PowerChina Guizhou Engineering
• PowerChina Jiangxi Electric Power Construction
• Risen Energy
• S.C New Energy Technology
• Sineng Electric
• SMA Solar Technology
• SPIC (Beijing) New Energy Investment
• Sun Yat-sen University Solar Research Institute
• Sungrow Power Supply
• Suzhou Maxwell Technology
• Suzhou Run Sunshine Technology
• Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor
• Trina Solar
• Triumph Science & Technology
• TÜV NORD
• TÜV Rheinland (China).
• TÜV Süd Certification and Testing (China).
• UL CCIC.
• Wuxi Shangji Automation.
• Xiaoniu Automation Equipment.
• Xinyi Glass (Anhui).
• Yonz Technology (Changzhou).

Separately, 7 PV makers in China just recently registered to an initiative to advise the global solar market to take on 182mm as the typical format for solar silicon wafers. Those 7 companies are Longi Solar, JinkoSolar, Canadian Solar, JA Solar, Runyang Yueda Photovoltaic Technology, Lu'an Solar Technology as well as Zhongyu Photovoltaic Technology.