Manufacturing

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.

Solar module supplier Maxeon Solar Technologies’ has forecast to register positive adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2023.

LONGi Green Energy announced the latest silicon wafer prices on 3 March, with quotes for p-type M10 150μm mono wafers (182/247mm) increasing by 4%.

French PV manufacturing startup Carbon has chosen a location for a proposed cell and module gigafactory which it plans to bring into operation in late 2025. The plant would be Carbon’s first production facility.

German manufacturer AE Solar has planned to build a module manufacturing plant with a 10GW annual capacity in Romania.

JA Solar is looking to capitalise on strong demand for modules in the Middle East as developers plan ever-larger solar projects and governments encourage the deployment of distributed PV systems.

Solar module manufacturer Seraphim Energy Group has launched a new TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) series of solar PV modules.

Module manufacturer Meyer Burger has introduced a new product platform for its solar modules, enabling the scalability of new manufacturing capacities and accelerating mass production.