Fab & Facilities

Australia’s Prime Minister has announced an Inflation Reduction Act-style investment package to stimulate a domestic clean energy manufacturing industry.

The report identified access to capital and upfront investment as the key method by which the government could support the expansion of a PV manufacturing industry in Australia.

As trade laws and concern around the concentration of solar manufacturing in China increase, can the solar supply chain support global demand?

The White House must “act immediately to solve the urgent issues interfering with investment in domestic solar manufacturing”, according to a statement from the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America (SEMA) coalition.

Price of polysilicon decreased this week both for p-type and n-type materials with the former dropping below the historic low of US$6.75/kg reached in June 2020.

DMEGC Solar has received an award from TÜV Rheinland to conduct module testing operations at its own facilities.

Pahal Solar has broken ground on a new fully-automated facility, which will expand the company’s manufacturing capacity to 1.8GW.

Prefabricated solar structure provider 5B has made a number of investments into its prefabrication business in both the US and India.

Polysilicon manufacturer REC Silicon has delayed the timeframe of its first shipment from its Moses Lake facility from end of first quarter 2024 to early Q2 2024.

Tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cell and module technology will dominate the mainstream of the solar PV market in 2024-25.