Manufacturing

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.

Trina Solar’s latest 210mm n-type industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact (i-TOPCon) module has achieved a maximum power output of 740.6W.

Nextracker has completed an expansion of its manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania, US, increasing the manufacturing capacity to 4GW.

Solar tracker producer Array Technologies has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

The Ningbo Boway Alloy Materials Company has announced plans to expand its TOPCon cell manufacturing capacity in the US by 2GW.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on laser welding, which could make solar panels easier to recycle.