The US Department of Commerce has found that five Chinese solar PV manufacturers have been circumventing its import tariffs by relocating minor portions of their supply chains to Southeast Asia.
Trina Solar has produced the first of its 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells at its production facility in Qinghai province, China, as the scale of n-type solar production continues to ramp up across the industry.
Indian solar manufacturer Waaree will expand its ingot, wafer, cell and module production capacity by 6GW following a second round equity funding raise of around INR10 billion (US$121 million).
Prices of all upstream PV products such as silicon wafers and silicon ingots increased recently, but downstream module prices continued to decline and reached new lows.
Chinese module manufacturer GCL System Integration (GCL SI) has commissioned the first phase of its 20GW tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) cell plant in Wuhu, China.
Canadian solar manufacturer Heliene has announced plans to build around 1GW of solar module assembly and 1.5GW of solar cell production capacity in the US.
