Manufacturing

Professor Martin Green expects the larger companies to survive the current pressures in the solar industry which keeps adding capacity.

PV Tech Premium spoke with Martin Green on n-type technology, China's solar dominance, perovskite and promising markets.

On 6 December, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association released the latest transaction prices for solar-grade polysilicon.

A shortage of US-made cells and other materials means ongoing reliance on imports to match domestic module capacity, according to CEA.

Despite the gigawatts of recent domestic module manufacturing announcements, Clean Energy Associates expects the US market to depend on imports for years to come

The tests conducted on DMEGC Solar n-type modules include thermal cycling, damp heat, mechanical load, ultraviolet composite, potential induced degradation (PID).

PV Tech spoke with Tongwei’s vice general manager of PV business, Yan Li, about its ten-year mark, the launch of a new TOPCon module line and the rollout of its Global Partner Programme.

Canadian solar PV module manufacturer Heliene has doubled the capacity of its Mountain Iron, Minnesota module production line to 300MW following an extra US$10 million investment into the facility.

Solar manufacturer GCL SI is among the companies that will be present at COP28 and with whom PV Tech was able to speak with Zhang Kun, executive president of GCL SI about what it expects from COP28, the pledge to treble renewable generation capacity and what the solar industry can bring to the conversation in Dubai.

Greater strategic coordination of solar worldwide is needed to help meet climate goals, the new CEO of the Global Solar Council has said.