Cell Processing

Cells and wafers have accounted for 22% and 20%, respectively, of China’s product exports in the first half of 2025, according to Ember.

Despite policy setbacks, US manufacturing has come a long way since 2022 and shows strong potential looking ahead. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at the data.

Greater awareness of UV light used to test solar cells could result in faster, more efficient assessments of long-term performance.

The Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has published the approved list of models and manufacturers (ALMM) for solar cells, which contains 13GW of annual nameplate capacity across six manufacturers.

A subsidiary of JinkoSolar has filed a lawsuit in Munich accusing LONGi Green Energy and several subsidiaries of infringing on a solar cell manufacturing patent.

Despite trade policy uncertainty, the price of solar modules in the US has remained fairly stable in the past three months, according to solar and storage supply chain platform Anza.

PV Tech Premium spoke with Qiaogiang Gan at KAUST on how the cooling technology helps improve solar cell application in harsher environments.

US-based solar manufacturer T1 Energy has expressed support for the US government’s tariff investigations into global polysilicon imports and solar products from Laos, Indonesia and India.

China's PV industry faced significant challenges, with production across the manufacturing chain growing at a slow pace, according to CPIA.

Prices of products across various segments of China's PV industry chain—polysilicon, wafers, cells, modules—have begun to rise recently.