Single-axis PV tracking systems specialist NEXTracker, acquired by contract manufacturer, Flextronics International (Flex) said it had reached the milestone of shipping a total of 3GW of tracker systems, globally.
Major US-based polysilicon producer Hemlock Semiconductor has filed suit against ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JA Solar for breaching a long-term polysilicon supply agreement.
CS Wismar GmbH with a team of former Centrosolar staff have restarted PV module assembly operations at the former Sonnenstromfabrik facility in Wismar, Germany
German-based trade association VDMA Photovoltaic Equipment said that manufacturing equipment orders received by around 100 members increased by 86% in the fourth quarter of 2015, marking a major rebound in purchase orders.
Nanoelectronics research center imec and kerfless epitaxial wafer start-up, Crystal Solar have demonstrated a homojunction solar cell with a record 22.5% conversion efficiency said to pave the way to low-cost solar wafer commercialisation.
Despite being technically bankrupt, Yingli Green as a NYSE listed company has been in stealth mode over its future viability since reporting third quarter 2015 results at the beginning of December last year.
US-Based ‘Direct Wafer’ producer, 1366 Technologies has secured a major supply deal with Hanwha Q CELLS, a ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member that will enable the company to ramp its planned initial 250MW facility in Genesee County, New York state in 2017.
Market research firm Lux Research believes the commercial deployment of perovskite solar cells could just be around the corner, according to a new published report.
