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United States conglomerate General Electric (GE) is looking to triple its solar and also battery energy storage manufacturing capacity at its recently launched Renewable Hybrids manufacturing facility in India by the end of 2022 to 9GW per annum.

PV equipment supplier Meyer Burger will shutter its Hennecke-branded manufacturing facility in Zülpich, Germany, affecting some 60 employees.

Italian solar (PV) panel maker FuturaSun will certainly move into solar cell manufacturing, planning a factory in Huai'an, in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, which will at some point reach a yearly capacity of 10 GW.

Two even more utility-scale solar projects in Texas with an incorporated capacity of more than 400MWdc have closed financing, continuing the Lone Star state's flourishing solar run.

Vikram Solar has actually finished a new 1.3 GW solar module production center in Tamil Nadu, India, taking its total manufacturing output to 2.5 GW.

United States solar tracker supplier Nextracker as well as steel producer BCI Steel have reopened the Bethlehem steel manufacturing factory in Leetsdale, Pittsburgh that will certainly refine steel and also create solar tracker equipment for utility-scale solar projects.

The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will certainly provide as much as USD 500 million (EUR 442.8 m) in the red to First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) to back its plan for a 3.3-GW DC thin-film solar module factory in India.

There are several steps in the silicon photovoltaic panel manufacturing procedure: silicon is melted as well as shaped right into ingots that are sliced right into wafers, which then develop into cells that are ultimately constructed right into a photovoltaic panel.

LA is rushing to renewable energy. The city has just approved a contract with a 25 year term to get powered by a solar plant in Kern County. The project is being implemented in the framework of the Global Green New Deal.

Kontrolmatik Technologies, using its subsidiary Pomega Energy Storage Technologies, means to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Colleton County, South Carolina. The 500,000-sq-ft facility will certainly have an initial production capability of 3 GWh and also create LFP cells for grid-scale energy storage applications. Production is expected to begin in 2024.

Fiat Chrysler has actually started building of a vehicle-to-grid pilot at its Mirafiori manufacturing facility in Turin. The project, which likewise consists of 5 MW of PV, will ultimately become a virtual nuclear power plant.

Swedish thin film solar cell supplier Midsummer will get approximately EUR38 million (US$ 44 million) worth of monetary incentives to develop a 50MW manufacturing facility in Bari, Italy.

Maxeon Solar Technologies has said it may encounter producing disruptions if it is unable to mitigate the effects of resources as well as component cost increases from its vendors.

AGL has government authorization to build a 500MW/2,000 MWh battery energy storage system at a retiring coal power plant site in New South Wales The proposed BESS by the business will certainly be four times the size of the Victorian Big Battery

California-headquartered PV Hardware (PVH), a Spanish solar tracker and also placing systems manufacturer, announced yesterday its plans to open up a production facility in Saudi Arabia.