Manufacturing

Test lab for solar developers PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) has announced updates to its Product Qualification Program (PQP) with four major changes.

China will account for 95% of the announced global n-type cell capacity in 2026, while the solar market is switching its focus to n-type cells

LONGi has developed a crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell with a power conversion efficiency of 33.9%, the highest on record.

Trina Solar shipped more than 45GW of modules in the first three quarters of 2023, as its revenue increased by over 31% year-on-year.

This year, we are hosting the 10th bifacial workshop in Doha from 3 to 6 December under the theme of "Entering the bifacial n-type era", with a focus on desert applications

US solar tracker manufacturer Array Technologies has announced a plan to build the second manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

EDF North America has signed an agreement with Solarcycle to recycle all damaged or broken solar modules from its solar installations.

US cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film module manufacturer First Solar has announced an agreement to supply utility-scale renewables developer Swift Current Energy with 500GW of thin film modules.

First Solar has reached a module backlog of 81.8GW, which it expects to extend into 2030, as of the third quarter of 2023.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will invest AU$11 million (US$6.9 million) in Australian solar technology company SunDrive Solar to support the commercial scale-up of SunDrive’s novel solar cell metallisation technology.