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PV Price Watch update with TCL Zhonghuan's wafer price reduction for both its p-type and n-type products, following LONGi's price reduction.

PV Tech Premium sat down with Singapore-headquartered solar manufacturer Maxeon to discuss its practices for ensuring a more recyclable and sustainable future for solar modules.

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member Risen Energy will supply around 1GW of its heterojunction technology (HJT) solar modules to Singaporean IPP (independent power producer) Athein Holding Pte.

Gyanesh Chaudhary, Vikram Solar’s chairman, tells PV Tech Premium about the company’s first vertical integration and manufacturing facility abroad and how it was driven by the IRA and recent cell capacity wins in India.

Upstream US-based solar manufacturer CubicPV might feasibly be the place at which tandem perovskite PV products are successfully made durable enough for commercial use; two recent announcements have come out of the company that speak to the potential of its tandem development route.

A research team from the National University of Singapore has unveiled perovskite solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 24.35%.

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) has launched a request for expressions of interest (EoI) to boost the country’s solar PV manufacturing supply chain.

Polysilicon material prices have experienced a further decline recently, with the price of mono popcorn reaching a new low of RMB60/kg (US$8.3/kg).

Indian module manufacturer Vikram Solar has formed a joint venture (JV) with private equity firm Phalanx Impact Partners, and venture capital company Das & Co. to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the US.

Part-2 of this article will discuss how recycling solar PV will reach landfill parity, the company’s global ambition and how PV recycling will have to work towards avoiding dumping panels illegally in less developed countries.