Manufacturing

Belgian solar manufacturer Belinus has selected Belgium and Georgia to build 5GW of solar module manufacturing facilities to be operational by the end of 2025.

JinkoSolar has finished 2022 with 44.5GW of solar modules shipped globally and expects to have 60% of all shipments in 2023 from its n-type products.

US PV manufacturer Silfab has closed a US$125 million investment led by ARC Financial Corp to fund a 1GW solar cell manufacturing facility in the US.

The EU Commission has announced new measures to support multiple sectors, including the renewable energy industry, to keep them in Europe.

On 8 March, the Silicon Industry Branch updated the latest information on silicon material prices, which have fallen by as much as 4.8% year-on-year.

Solar PV will lead the energy transition in Malaysia and could reach up to 153GW of installed capacity by 2050.

Italian PV panel manufacturer FuturaSun has acquired 24,000 square metres of land to build a factory with 2GW production capacity in a year, relaunching its PV supply chain in Europe.

After the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, solar PV and storage are expected to create up to 115,000 manufacturing workers in the US by 2030.

The combined effects of the ongoing anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariff investigation and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) curbed US solar deployments in 2022, according to a joint report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.

PV modules will keep changing in the quest for higher efficiency and energy yield. However, the rapid and sometimes simultaneous introduction of new technologies increases overall quality risk, writes George Touloupas, senior director at Clean Energy Associates.