Fab & Facilities

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has awarded funding to seven solar PV manufacturing projects with more than €210 million.

Gstar Solar has received solar equipment - monocrystalline growth furnaces - for its 3GW wafer manufacturing plant in Indonesia.

This would be treble the installations registered globally in 2024, with China controlling most of the supply chain.

The president said the move was “necessary to advance the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government."

Reducing silver consumption remains one of the key trends in the solar industry, such as going busbar-less, highlights the ITRPV.

The company signed the financing MoU with the New and Renewable Energy Department of the Madhya Pradesh government.

The PV industry has been playing a game of 'whack a mole' in tackling module defects over the past decade, according to Kiwa Pi Berlin.

PV Tech Premium spoke with Alexia Ruvoletto, former head of the Solar Stewardship Initiative, about its supply traceability standard.

Japanese industrial electric and automation technology company Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC) has begun operations at its inverter manufacturing plant in Texas, US.

PV Talk: Origami Solar CEO Gregg Patterson believes a rapid transition from aluminium to steel as the standard material for PV module frames is imminent.