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A group of scientists from China has created an EVA film claimed to improve efficiency of solar devices by about 0.5 percent. This newly developed pure film converts ultraviolet radiation into visible light.

Major polysilicon producer Wacker Chemie has reported preliminary full-year 2019 financial results, highlighting higher than previously guided asset impairment charges on its polysilicon division as ASPs (Average Selling Price) remain at record lows leading to an EBITDA loss of €55 million.

The debt-saddled developer now has to hope its latest, $230 million state bail-out goes ahead before summer or it will be left $260 million in hock to its Beijing-owned main shareholder.

EGing Photovoltaic, PV maker is planning after guiding a full-year 2019 internet gain reduction, production relocation and major production upgrades to come back to competitiveness.

According to the data published by Chinese NEA, the People’s Republic installed 12 gigawatts of photovoltaic projects in December. However, the country also developed almost 41 gigawatts of carbon-emitting coal power generation capacity during 2019.

GCL New Energy has inked an agreement for selling seven China-based photovoltaic projects to CHNG. The total capacity of the operational facilities is about 294 megawatts.

The White House put an loophole in its own tariffs, and the effort to undo it has been held up in court.

Manz AG has signed an agreement with China’s Shenzhen Yinghe Technology for strategic cooperation in lithium-ion cell and module production.

A bustling US and a slumping China offered a contrasting picture of solar investment during a year when the global industry laid the foundations of a subsidy-free shift

The Chinese manufacturer has achieved conversion efficiencies of 21.82% and 22.49% for its p-type PERC and n-type HOT bifacial panels, respectively. The results were confirmed by Germany’s TÜV Rheinland.

Specialist PV manufacturing equipment supplier Singulus Technologies has received a new order for CIGS thin film processing tools from existing customer, China National Building Materials (CNBM).

The easing of economic tensions between the US and China is set to throw a lifeline to the solar industry, bringing some respite to the sector after years of back-and-forth trade tariffs and levies.

Aiko Solar Energy is inclined to considerably increase the production capacity of its plants over the coming three years.

The heavily-indebted, Chinese state-owned solar project developer now has ten days to rustle up $242 million after a debt restructuring proposal was accepted by less than a third of its creditors.

China’s Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd (SHE:300274) on Tuesday announced two contracts to supply residential, commercial and industrial inverter solutions for projects in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt with a total capacity of 200 MW.