PV module manufacturing equipment specialist M10 Industries is using SNEC 2016 to highlight its new ‘Kubus MTS 5000’ stringer via 3D simulation demonstrations at the event being held this week in Shanghai, China.
The Swiss non-profit research and technology organisation, the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), today unveiled new PV facilities to include a 500m² cleanroom and 600m² module testing and production laboratories.
Everyone in the industry knows the price of solar continues to fall in most global sectors, inching closer to – or reaching – parity with other energy sources, both renewable and carbonaceous. But when a well-respected market researcher says prices are falling in real time in some regions, that attention-grabbing statement is not something one usually hears in any timeline.
Airbus Defence and Space, a division of European multinational aerospace and defence corporation Airbus Group, has signed with US-based semiconductor manufacturer Microlink Devices to produce epitaxial liftoff (ELO)-based multijunction solar sheets for Airbus’s new drones.
More than half of the 4 million solar products sold by member companies in the Global Off-grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) in the second half of 2015 were in Sub-Saharan Africa, the association has reported.
NEXTracker has received certification for compliance with Brazilian domestic content rules for its manufacturing operations, opening access to favourable credit lines for the company.
It was a long time coming but on Monday evening, Yingli released its annual report. Financials had been released separately at the tail end of last week offering some insight to the company’s fortunes as it looks to navigate an extremely tricky cashflow situation.
A joint venture between India-based developer Renew Power and China’s cell and module manufacturer Hareon Solar Technology has commissioned a 72MW project in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Brazil’s newly-appointed minister of mines and energy Fernando Coelho Filho has told members of the electricity industry that renewable energy will be one of his focus areas in the coming weeks and months.
Manufacturing equipment supplier Manz, which regards solar and energy storage as two of its three key strategic business segments, claims recent restructuring is starting to pay off, reporting some positive developments in its latest financial reports.
