Modules

This year, we are hosting the 10th bifacial workshop in Doha from 3 to 6 December under the theme of "Entering the bifacial n-type era", with a focus on desert applications

US cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film module manufacturer First Solar has announced an agreement to supply utility-scale renewables developer Swift Current Energy with 500GW of thin film modules.

First Solar has reached a module backlog of 81.8GW, which it expects to extend into 2030, as of the third quarter of 2023.

Undetected faults and damage in solar PV modules, like cracks, manufacturing errors and foreign material, pose a “significant risk” to the solar industry according to a new report from US renewables firm Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member JinkoSolar shipped 21.3GW of solar modules and 1.2GW of cells and wafers in Q3 2023, an increase of 21.4% sequentially and 108.2% year-on-year (YoY).

India's solar module exports to the US and Europe will likely to peak in 2025 and experience a decline starting from 2026 as domestic manufacturing plants will be operational in these regions, according to a recent research from energy analyst JMK Reseach.

This week, module manufacturers around the world have announced new manufacturing facilities, and new records for their modules.

The EU has been increasing its cumulative solar capacity over the years and facing several challenges simultaneously, particularly the influx of solar modules this year. 

PV Tech Premium caught up with the French solar PV manufacturing startup Carbon to discuss its plans for expansion, inclusion in a European research and development (R&D) ecosystem and how to redress the balance of EU solar supply.

Multiple European solar associations have published an open letter, calling for the EU to develop industry strategy for the European solar PV sector and opposing the introduction of tariffs and trade barriers.