Manufacturing

Under the agreement, First Solar will supply its Series 6 Plus bifacial thin-film PV modules to the St. Louis-based company. 

Scientists from the University of New South Wales have found that TOPCon modules endure “significant degradation” in damp heat testing.

Chinese module manufacturer GCL System Integration Technology (GCL SI) has shipped 16.42GW of solar module capacity in 2023.

The price of polysilicon continues to decline, in some cases below production costs, prompting a wait-and-see attitude within the PV industry.

Chinese solar manufacturer Huasun has reported “record-breaking” efficiency figures for its mass-produced heterojunction technology (HJT) solar cells.

Boviet Solar will build its first North American production facility in Greenville, Pitt County, in the US state of North Carolina.

Swedish solar manufacturer Midsummer has selected the municipality of Flen in central Sweden to build a 200MW thin-film solar cell facility.

Singapore-headquartered solar manufacturer Gstar Solar has broken ground on a silicon rod and wafer-slicing plant in Indonesia.

HY Solar is planning 16GW of n-type cell production capacity in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia.

An increase in solar module prices is “hard to imagine unless there is a massive shortage in supply”, according to PV Tech head of research Finlay Colville.