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Taiwan’s solar makers fight back to escape market turbulence
The rollercoaster witnessed in recent years by Taiwan’s solar manufacturers is written all over the words of Jenny Hsu, global sales manager of Motech Industries.
Oct 20, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, PV cells, Taiwan, energy taiwan, auo, ks terminals, motech, Jenny Hsu
India takes into consideration brand-new solar manufacturing areas as basic personalized duty strategy proceeds-- reports
India is looking to set up a series of brand-new production zones to produce solar tools, according to regional websites.
Aug 17, 2020 // Market Research, India, China, Asia, tariffs, mnre
China Moves To Curb Solar Overcapacity After Emergency Industry Meetings
Beijing pressed solar manufacturers to rein in “disordered” price competition and phase out outdated capacity after fresh talks with industry leaders, signaling tighter policy ahead.
Aug 20, 2025 // Manufacturing News, China, polysilicon, Asia, overcapacity
CIP provides loan backing Ampliform’s expanding United States solar pipeline
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners will lend up to USD 165 million to Ampliform, accelerating procurement and delivery across a U.S. utility-scale solar and storage pipeline.
Oct 23, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America, CIP, project finance, Ampliform
Fraunhofer ISE researchers develop bifacial hybrid HCPV module with output of 326 W/m2
The EyeCon module has a hybrid power output of 326 W/m ² or a bifacial performance of 28%, determined with the offered global plus behind irradiance. According to the research group, the silicon cell creates in between 23 and 42 W/m ² of additional power when the diffuse irradiance element increases from 8 to 30%.
Feb 6, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Germany, bifacial, Europe, Fraunhofer ISE, hybrid HCPV module
Intersolar SA: where bifacial and trackers collide
The industrial development of the bifacial solar module over the last few years represents one of the most significant events in the world of photovoltaic systems. Today, this technology constitutes one of the most promising trends in the global solar market. During Intersolar South America, Convert will present its bi-facial tracker, an innovative solution to gain more solar energy from the panels.
Aug 7, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, PV plant, pv modules, Brazil, Bifacial PV, Intersolar SA, photovoltaic systems, Convert, trackers
Bangladesh extends incentive scheme for domestic solar industry
PV manufacturers receive 10% of the value of their exported products as an incentive and the nation’s central bank has extended the program to cover this financial year. Bangladesh’s solar manufacturers have called for more, however, and point to more generous schemes to the west.
Oct 29, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Bangladesh, Asia, solar modules, Munawar Misbah Moin, Golam Baki Masud
LPKF Laser wins US$ 12m device order from initial CIGS thin film consumer
LPKF Laser & Electronics has protected its very first laser solar scribing system order from a CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) thin film customer worth around US$ 12.2 million.
Dec 18, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Europe, CIGS thin film, cdte thin-film modules, lpkf laser, Goetz M. Bendele
CEA INES and Enel announce 24.63% effectiveness for heterojunction solar cell
The effectiveness of the solar cell, which is made with a basic M2 wafer, was raised by around 0.7% through an improved busbarless screen printing metallization process based on heterojunction (HJT) processes developed with production devices supplied by Swiss professional Meyer Hamburger.
Feb 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, France, Italy, Enel, Europe, solar cell, meyer burger, CEA INES
McCarthy completes construction on 200-MW Arizona solar project set to power Microsoft data center
McCarthy Building Companies' Renewable Energy and Storage Group recently finished building and last appointing of the 200-MWdc Sun Streams 2 solar project in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Oct 11, 2021 // Plants, USA, Microsoft, North America, McCarthy, Scott Canada
Meyer Burger plans CHF-250m share issue to scale manufacturing capacity
Swiss solar module manufacturer Meyer Burger Technology AG (SWX: MBTN) will certainly look for to increase approximately CHF 250 million (USD 252.74 m/EUR 258.85 m) in a share issue to speed up the growth of its annual production capacity to about 3 GW.
Oct 5, 2022 // Manufacturing News, meyer burger, solar module
Maxwell, Cybrid utilize light conversion film to enhance HJT module power output
Solar cell production equipment vendor Suzhou Maxwell Technologies has boosted the power of a 60-cell heterojunction (HJT) module by more than 5W thanks to the addition of a light conversion film.
Apr 20, 2022 // Manufacturing News, heterojunction, HJT, maxwell technologies, cybrid
Chile inaugurates 3-MW solar plant
Chilean officials recently inaugurated the 3-MW Tamarugo solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Tamagural district, northern Chilean region of Tarapaca.
Nov 8, 2021 // Plants, Chile, South america, PV Power Plant
Downstream solar meets upstream innovation at PV ModuleTech 2019
Bifacial module yields, manufacturer bankability probing and quality benchmarking strategies have all taken centre stage at this year’s edition of PV ModuleTech in Malaysia.
Oct 22, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Malaysia, First Solar, solar pv, pv modules, Asia, PV module, bankability, pv moduletech
Qatar to inaugurate 800-MW solar park in Oct
Qatar is readied to inaugurate the Al Kharsaah solar complex with a capacity of 800 MW this month, energy minister and president of QatarEnergy, Saad Al-Kaabi, said throughout the Energy Intelligence Discussion Forum in London.
Oct 10, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Qatar, Solar Park












