Manufacturing

Global Solar Council CEO Sonia Dunlop highlights the pressing need for concerted action to prepare for the coming wave of PV decommissioning and help the industry achieve its goal of circularity.

The solar industry’s readiness for an expected surge in end-of-life PV projects and equipment is the subject of a special report that leads issue 45 of PV Tech Power, out now.

US-based solar manufacturer Thornova Solar has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with PV solutions provider Nextpower to incorporate steel frames into certain modules.

Damp heat testing of solar PV modules yielded 11% 'red flag' results in RETC's latest PV Module Index Report.

Chinese PV inverter and BESS manufacturer Sungrow has entered the PV module manufacturing market with a new "smart module" product, dubbed Pulson.

Chinese solar manufacturer JinkoSolar has launched its 700W Tiger Neo 5.0 module series and a SunTera G5 energy storage system.

NSW will provide AU$225 million in new funding to support domestic manufacturing of low-carbon products and renewable energy components.

SEG Solar will build a third module manufacturing plant in the US that will bring the company’s total manufacturing capacity to 10.6GW.

PV Talk: Kiwa PVEL's Tristan Erion-Lorico discusses highlights in the 2026 Module Reliability Scorecard, including UVID and delamination.

Trina's THBC - which combines TOPCon, HJT and BC - aims to leverage existing TOPCon capacity and increase the efficiency of C-Si single-junction cells.