Huawei: Smart solar can defer costly grid investment

PV Tech Research’s annual ranking of the top ten PV module manufacturers reveals some signs of recovery after a turbulent 2025, writes Moustafa Ramadan.

As TOPCon manufacturing expands globally, producers are facing different cost, safety and supply-chain realities – creating an opportunity to rethink technology platforms and prepare for next-generation tandem architectures.

The latest domestic solar-grade polysilicon transaction prices from the Silicon Industry Branch of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association show that all domestic n-type solar-grade polysilicon products have plunged, with steep declines across the board.

Analysis: Just as the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to a European pivot on clean energy, the US-Israel war on Iran presents another potential turning point, this time with a wider global reach.

Maxwell has developed a perovskite/silicon heterojunction technology (HJT) tandem solar PV cell with a conversion efficiency of 32.5%.

Trinasolar has launched two new series of i-TOPCON solar PV modules, the Vertex S+ G3 range and the Vertex N G3 series.