Major merchant solar cell producer Neo Solar Power (NSP) may be taking a cautious ‘wait-and-see’ approach to moving production outside Taiwan to circumvent US anti-dumping duties but its plan to launch a yieldco on the Hong Kong stock exchange reveals a more aggressive option to rekindle its business growth.
Leading microinverter firm Enphase Energy has supplied over 3,200 C250 microinverters to a single 900kW commercial PV installation in Marion, Massachusetts, its largest installation to date using the commercial microinverter.
Tier-one PV manufacturer JA Solar is to form a special committee to advice on the offer from its chairman and CEO, Baofang Jin over taking the company private by acquiring all outstanding (ADS) shares listed on NASDAQ.
Leading thin-film PV manufacturer First Solar has surpassed multicrystalline module conversion efficiencies for the first time with its CdTe module efficiency reaching a record 18.6%.
Major PV energy provider (PVEP) Canadian Solar has upgraded PV module warranties on both its multicrystalline and high-end monocrystalline product offerings.
Monocrystalline wafer producer Comtec Solar Systems Group said it had completed the qualification processes to supply two existing customers headquartered in the US and Japan from its Malaysian-based wafer production plant.
Thin-film manufacturing equipment specialist Hanergy Thin Film Power has cancelled a recent 900MW a-Si turnkey production plant with parent company, Hanergy Holding.
Nano-electronics research center imec said it had achieved a record cell conversion efficiency of 22.5% for its large area (6-inch) n-type PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally diffused) Cz-Si solar cell.
Major PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow Power Supply is expanding both its 99% peak efficiency string inverter range as well as placing greater emphasis on international markets as it plans to showcase the new products as Intersolar Europe.
