Cell Processing

Vikram Solar plans a 9GW wafer and ingot plant at its recently inaugurated 6GW Tamil Nadu module facility.

ES Foundry's Alex Zhu outlines how the US cell maker is betting on PERC while navigating shifting regulations and supply-chain constraints.

UNSW has achieved a 12.4% efficiency and record voltage for CZTS solar cells by reducing defects through improved copper-sulphur bonding.

India is set for record solar installations in 2026, while ALMM-II drives cell shortages and higher system prices, according to Wood Mackenzie.

South Korean PV producer Hanwha Solutions, parent company of Q Cells, has had a long-contested passivation patent revoked in Europe.

Websol has begun a brownfield upgrade of a 600MW mono PERC cell manufacturing line to TOPCon, increasing its total cell capacity to 1.35GW.

This week's PV Chart of the Week profiles the technology breakdown of projected US solar cell production capacity.

Welcome to the PV Chart of the Week from our colleagues at PV Tech Research. This week, we look at the annual nameplate capacity for solar cells and modules in the US since 2020.

MNRE has expanded the ALMM List-I by adding 12,724MW of solar module manufacturing capacity, taking the total enlisted capacity to 217,107MW.

Tandem PV has acquired fellow nexTC, which develops thin-film metal oxide coating processes for use in tandem solar modules.