Manufacturing

New entrants into US polysilicon manufacturing could be a 'game changer,' Solar Media head of research Finlay Colville told PV Tech Premium.

US companies have announced more than 100,000 jobs in clean energy manufacturing since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Italian solar manufacturing machinery producer Ecoprogetti has installed a new, 250MW automated production line at a facility in Bulgaria.

The latest solar shingle factory will increase its capacity by 500% and bring total production of its solar shingle to 300MW annually.

Stäubli has announced 'major new investments' to expand its cable connector production and product assembly capacity in the US.

Future heterojunction technology (HJT) solar cells may require significantly less silver to produce, according to findings from researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).

The US Department of Energy' SETO has launched an up to US$20 million funding opportunity through the 2024 Photovoltaics Research and Development.

US polysilicon manufacturer REC Silicon expects to ship the first solar-grade polysilicon from its Moses Lake, Washington facility by the end of June.

First Solar will supply 170MW of Series 6 Plus bifacial modules and 287MW of Series 7 modules to MN8's projects in the US.