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Tongwei Co. pushes ahead with ambitious expansion plans while Chinese solar sector braces for inevitable consolidation and price wars. The 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) factory in Inner Mongolia promises 500,000 tons of industrial silicon and 400,000 tons of polysilicon annually.

LONGi's R&D team sets record-breaking 33.9% efficiency in tandem solar cell – and they're confident of pushing that to over 34% soon. Get the details from this expert analysis.

Trina Solar is building the largest single-site silicon solar panel factory in the US, creating 1,500 jobs and investing over $200 million. Producing Vertex modules with 210-mm wafers, the 1 million-sq-ft facility is set to come online in 2024. Be part of the US solar market revolution with Trina Solar's 25+ years of experience and 150 GW of modules shipped worldwide.

CubicPV is now looking to build a 10GW US silicon wafer manufacturing base, and to continue its research into perovskite-silicon tandem technology.

A big group of technologists associated with numerous institutions in China, collaborating with two coworkers from Germany and also an additional two from Saudi Arabia, has located a way to create flexible monocrystalline silicon solar cells.

Beijing Yaoneng Technology Co. (Auner), a Chinese programmer of perovskite and also crystalline silicon lamination photovoltaic innovation and supplier of photovoltaic cells as well as components, has actually introduced that its 25cm ² perovskite silicon tandem PV cell has actually attained a secure conversion performance of 30.83% in the laboratory, which has reportedly been confirmed by China's National Institute of Metrology.

TNO, in cooperation with Dutch and German commercial companions, is advancing a perovskite/silicon tandem solar module suitable for very early market introduction.

Nano-textured surface areas are an interesting strategy for maximizing the optical qualities for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have actually checked out the growth of different textures of silicon surface areas making use of different industrial additives as well as their efficiency in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and also SHJ-- perovskite tandem solar cells.

Linton Crystal Technologies (LCT) revealed it will produce solar silicon production equipment in the United States and intends to break ground on a united state manufacturing facility in Q2 2023. The Rochester, New York-based firm makes silicon-growing and crystal-processing equipment as well as has formerly dealt with Dalian Linton NC Machine Co. Ltd. in China to make its equipment.

REC Silicon ASA, a Norwegian silicon producer, and Hanwha Solutions, part of Korea's Hanwha Group, have announced progress in finalizing a 10-year supply agreement for solar silicon production from the Moses Lake (Washington state) factory. This agreement is a major step forward for sustainable energy news and photovoltaic technology.

The united state solar market will certainly soon have the ability to make the most of locally produced solar cells. Enel North America, through its affiliate 3Sun USA, revealed its plans to develop a silicon solar cell production center in the USA with an anticipated minimum manufacturing capacity of 3 GW.

Trina Solar has actually started building on a vast new industrial park in the central Chinese province of Qinghai that will cover practically the whole PV manufacturing chain from polysilicon manufacturing completely to modules.

Chinese module manufacturer Jolywood Solar has actually authorized an agreement with the government of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province to build a high-purity, solar-grade polysilicon manufacturing facility as it tries to balance out rising raw material expenses and also push for greater vertical combination.

Major polysilicon and wafer manufacturer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings verified the completion of its granular silicon facility as well as, in a significant turnaround of its lot of money in 2020, is expecting RMB5.4 billion (US$ 850 million) in net profit for 2021, according to a business statement.

Market association Eurometaux has asked EU policy-makers to enable participant states to support domestic manufacturers of aluminium, zinc and also silicon with state help to make sure products of the metals critical for the transition to reduced carbon energy.