Fab & Facilities

Gyanesh Chaudhary, Vikram Solar’s chairman, tells PV Tech Premium about the company’s first vertical integration and manufacturing facility abroad and how it was driven by the IRA and recent cell capacity wins in India.

Upstream US-based solar manufacturer CubicPV might feasibly be the place at which tandem perovskite PV products are successfully made durable enough for commercial use; two recent announcements have come out of the company that speak to the potential of its tandem development route.

A research team from the National University of Singapore has unveiled perovskite solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 24.35%.

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) has launched a request for expressions of interest (EoI) to boost the country’s solar PV manufacturing supply chain.

Polysilicon material prices have experienced a further decline recently, with the price of mono popcorn reaching a new low of RMB60/kg (US$8.3/kg).

Europe will surpass its 30GW solar PV manufacturing target by 2025 if the right industry and policy conditions are met, according to a report by the European Solar PV Industry Alliance (ESIA).

Canadian Solar will build its first production facility in the US, with the capacity to produce 5GW of solar modules a year.

US solar manufacturer CubicPV has received US$103 million in equity financing to support its plans to develop a US silicon wafer production base.

A newly-created, equipment-supplier-led PV consortium could be vital for the future of domestic US solar manufacturing.

JA Solar has announced a plan to construct a project in the Ordos High-Tech Zone, with an annual production capacity of 30GW ingots, 10GW silicon wafers, and 10GW modules. The total investment amounted to about RMB6.02 billion (US$870.1 million).