Cell Processing

The Middle East has become a key market for Chinese PV companies, both as a source of demand for hardware and also as a hotspot for new manufacturing hubs. Carrie Xiao reports on some of the latest developments in the region.

The report said that tandem modules need a minimum efficiency of 25% to be competitive with other solar technologies on price.

Trinasolar has become the first company to achieve certification under the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) ESG Standard.

Indian solar module manufacturer Waaree Energies has started trial production at its 5.4GW cell production facility in Chikhli, Gujarat.

JinkoSolar has claimed a 33.84% conversion efficiency in a perovskite tandem solar cell based on n-type TOPCon technology.

Maxeon opened the case in June 2023. The case concerns shingled solar cell technology patents used in Maxeon’s Performance line modules

The 28.6% efficiency rating was certified by the CalLab at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).

The company uses direct “gas-to-wafer” epitaxial technology to produce its solar wafers which achieved 24.4% efficiency on HJT cells.

The sites are expected to generate over 120MW of solar power, Nexamp said, across the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and Minnesota.

NuVision Solar, a new US-based solar manufacturer, has been formed and aims to build a heterojunction (HJT) solar cell and module assembly plant in the US.