Category: Solar PV Manufacturing
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Sungrow Invests $939 Million In 600 MW Solar Power Projects
Sungrow is the largest inverter manufacturer in China and the company is now expanding into the solar power development business. An agreement was recently signed between eastern China’s Chaohu government for the development of 600 MW of PV solar plants. (Note that Chaohu is a city with a population of about 859,000.) The goal is to have all 600 […]
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27-Year PV Power Warrantees Announced By Vikram Solar
West Bengal, India–based PV module manufacturer Vikram Solar has announced some of its 60- and 72-cell multi-crystalline silicon solar modules now come with a linear power warranty up to 27 years. The warranty includes modules belonging to the ELDORA Prime, Ultima, Neo, Grand, and Grand Ultima Series. Warrantee Power Degradation Plan The warranted power degradation […]
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Tandem Solar Cell Achieves Record Efficiency
A new tandem solar cell featuring monolithic perovskite and silicon has produced electricity with record efficiency, reports Helmholz-Berlin. “Teams from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have been the first to successfully combine a silicon heterojunction solar cell with a perovskite solar cell monolithically into a tandem device.” THZB reports this hybrid tandem […]
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InnoLas Laser Technology Supports 800MW Solar Cell Factory
InnoLas Solutions GmbH (InnoLas) is supplying five additional ILS-TT high throughput laser machines for Passivated Emitter Rear Cell (PERC) technology to Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. (SAS) with its subsidiary Sunrise Global Solar Energy Co. Ltd. The new laser machines are for Sunrise’s high efficiency cell factory with 800 MW of yearly production, which will be operational in […]
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World’s Most Efficient Silver Paste Exhibited By Heraeus
Reportedly, the most efficient silver paste in the world will be exhibited at the PV Taiwan 2015 conference in Taipei. This paste has been said to have the world record for PERC efficiency, rated at 21.7%. PERC means passivated emitter rear contact, which is part of a different kind of solar cell architecture. The silver paste is made […]
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Closure Of Thin-Film Development Site Marks Last Stop For Bosch PV Play
German-based Bosch is now in the midst of a complete exit from its solar PV play, having announced it will close its thin-film PV development site, Bosch Solar CISTech GmbH, due to its inability to find a suitable investor. As reported by pv-magazine, an exact date for the closure has not been given. Some 180 employees will […]
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CIGS Thin-Film Plant In China Dropped By Ascent Solar
A joint venture between Ascent Solar and the Chinese city of Suqian to build a thin-film solar plant has been shuttered. Initially, the plant was intended to produce about 25 MW of CIGS thin-film solar products, but that capacity could have been ramped up to 100 MW, if the plant had been constructed. It appears the two main factors contributing […]
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SolarCity Will Build World’s Most Efficient Solar Panels In America
SolarCity announced October 2 it has developed the world’s most efficient solar panels and expects to build 10,000 a day at its new 1GW factory in Buffalo.
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Production Begins At Saudi Arabia’s First Solar PV Inverter Facility
Production at a 1 GW solar PV inverter manufacturing facility has begun in Saudi Arabia. The inverter will be the first component to comply with the local production norms. The Shams PV inverters production line is the result of collaboration between Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) and German company Kaco. While the facility had […]
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China’s LONGi Silicon Plans 1 GW Solar Fab In India
One of the world’s leading silicon wafer producers, XI’AN LONGi Silicon Materials Corp, has expressed intentions to set up a manufacturing unit in India. LONGi Chairman Baoshen Zhong recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the state government of Andhra Pradesh to set up a solar cell and module manufacturing unit. LONGi plans to invest […]