Materials

Silfab Solar and NorSun plan to expand ingot and wafer production facilities in the US, to benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act.

REC Silicon has signed a supply agreement with Hanwha Qcells Georgia to supply high-purity fluidised bed reactor granular polysilicon.

Global module capacities are on track to reach 866GW by the end of 2023, more than doubling the existing capacity at the end of 2022.

Trina Solar’s tracker manufacturing unit TrinaTracker has opened a new facility in Brazil, with a 2.5GW annual capacity.

PV Tech Premium looks at how the AD/CVD ruling will impact the US industry moving forward and why the UFLPA will have a bigger impact.

Newly-launched solar manufacturer Bila Solar has revealed plans to build a 1GW PV module production facility in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The announcement comes days after the US Department of Commerce found that Trina had been circumventing its AD/CVD import tariffs via Southeast Asia.

Chinese solar manufacturer Tongwei has planned to invest RMB20 billion (US$2.7 billion) in its Leshan project, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, to expand ingot pulling, slicing and cell production capacity, so as to accelerate the establishment of “China’s Green Silicon Valley”.

Three German solar PV companies have partnered to invest €2 billion (US$2.2 billion) to build a vertically integrated manufacturing capacity.

The Clean Energy Council (CEC) of Australia and the New South Wales anti-slavery commissioner James Cockayne have partnered to produce a new Code of Practise to manage the risks of modern slavery exposure in renewable energy supply chains.