Modules

Italian solar manufacturing machinery producer Ecoprogetti has installed a new, 250MW automated production line at a facility in Bulgaria.

The latest solar shingle factory will increase its capacity by 500% and bring total production of its solar shingle to 300MW annually.

First Solar will supply 170MW of Series 6 Plus bifacial modules and 287MW of Series 7 modules to MN8's projects in the US.

Tongwei's Yan Li discusses the risks and opportunities the Chinese module manufacturer sees in the Middle East's flourishing solar market.

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.

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

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.