Manufacturing

Tristan Erion-Lorico, VP of Sales and Marketing at PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), on the Inflation Reduction Act and its implications for the selection of materials going into producing solar modules.

Sungrow has unveiled its latest floating solar system, which it has said is “suitable for the North American market”.

PV Hardware has announced that it expects to finish construction at its tracker manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas by October.

US solar tracker manufacturer Array Technologies has signed two deals to strengthen its domestic supply chain.

The US DFC has announced plans to invest US$425 million into TP Solar, to build a 4.3GW solar cell and module manufacturing plant in India.

Canadian PV manufacturer Heliene has secured US$170 million to grow its existing module assembly plant with two new 300MW lines.

Longroad Energy has extended a module supply agreement with First Solar, and now expects to acquire an additional 2GW of First Solar modules.

Multiple European cell and module manufacturers, start-ups and solar PV component suppliers have published an open letter via the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC), urging the EU to take actions to safeguard the European PV manufacturing industry threatened by "unsustainably low-priced PV modules" from Chinese module manufacturers.

Trina Solar plans to build a new module manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas, with a production capacity of 5GW.

Solar tracker supplier Nextracker and provider of industrial manufacturing and supply chain solutions Unimatics have opened a manufacturing facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.