PV wet chemical equipment and materials supplier, RENA GmbH has changed its name to RENA technologies GmbH and appointed a new CEO as the company prepares to exit insolvency proceedings that will result in Jürgen Gutekunst, founder and former CEO of RENA GmbH leaving the company.
Sweden-based nano-material development firm, Sol Voltaics has claimed a 1-sun record conversion efficiency of 15.3% for a solar cell coated with its gallium-arsenide (GaAs) nanowire array (NWA).
SolarCity's move into PV manufacturing is one of the global PV industry's big unfolding stories. Mark Osborne assesses what the Californian company will have to do to pull of its ambitious upstream venture.
SolarWorld is planning to add a total of 500MW of monocrystalline ingot production at the former Bosch solar manufacturing facilities in Arnstadt, Germany, and upgrade all 700MW of solar cell production at the site to next-generation PERC (passivated emitter rear cell) technology.
Major PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow Power Holdings said that 50 SG1000TS central inverters were used at a recently completed 50MW PV power plant built by Jinko Power Company, a subsidiary of PV module manufacturer, JinkoSolar in Jiangxi Province, China.
PV OEM power distribution products producer Bentek has increased its manufacturing capacity by 40% with the opening of a new facility in San Jose, California.
Specialist PV tracking systems supplier NEXTracker has been awarded a contract to supply California-based PV EPC firm, CalCom Solar with 100MW of tracker systems that will be used in projects primarily for the EPC firm’s agricultural and water systems businesses.
