Manufacturing

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

The US solar industry was previously sanguine about Trump's initial tariffs, though the impacts of these metal tariffs are unclear.

New manufacturing capacity additions from Gautam Solar and Waaree, alongside Indian solar deployments crossing the 100GW threshold.

A round-up of last week's news from China, including UtmoLight, the Mingyang Smart Energy Group and Leapting.

Will Norman asks if mass-scale deployment of perovskite technology is now imminent and whether it could unseat crystalline silicon as the dominant solar technology.

Factors including import duties and changing tax rates in China have driven up US module prices, according to CEA's latest pricing report.

Chinese module manufacturer JinkoSolar is suing rival producer Longi in Australia for alleged infringement of technology patents.

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.

TP Solar, a subsidiary of Tata Power, has commissioned a 4.3GW cell and module manufacturing facility in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Donald Trump's latest tariff threats will have only a minimal impact on PV manufacturing but could create future procurement headaches, write Jonathan Touriño Jacobo and Will Norman.