John Parnell

Annual deployment for the next two years will top 20GW with record levels expected in 2020.

Speaking at PV CellTech 2019, Dr Liyou Yang, general manager at Jinergy, says heterojunction solar remains under assessment in 2019 with certain criteria required before people make the jump to GW-scale production.

Fraunhofer ISE will validate and refine DuPont's accelerated testing methods with a view to improving on the current IEC protocols.

Even lowest estimate would lead to 40GW of total deployment in China in 2019.

Competitive tenders, better investment conditions and removing market distortions would enable solar to meet its potential, says developer speaking anonymously.

Latest GET FiT tender in Zambia awards 120MW of capacity to three winning bidders.

Speaking at the PV CellTech 2019 event, DuPont's Ted Zhi and Guangyao Jin discuss potential for future metalization gains and ensuring their R&D efforts cover future as well as current mainstream cell architectures.

Hongbin Fang, technical director of LONGi Solar says mono-PERC technology, including bifacial, will form the backbone of the solar sector in the immediate future.

Occitanie-based LUXEL has 1GW of assets either in operation, construction-ready or in development.

The LEGO holding company and investment fund KIRKBI has acquired the US arm of solar developer Enerparc.