Modules

Countries beyond China will need to invest US$700 billion to develop their renewables production capacity, according to Rystad Energy.

Professor Martin Green expects the larger companies to survive the current pressures in the solar industry which keeps adding capacity.

PV Tech Premium spoke with Martin Green on n-type technology, China's solar dominance, perovskite and promising markets.

A shortage of US-made cells and other materials means ongoing reliance on imports to match domestic module capacity, according to CEA.

Despite the gigawatts of recent domestic module manufacturing announcements, Clean Energy Associates expects the US market to depend on imports for years to come

The tests conducted on DMEGC Solar n-type modules include thermal cycling, damp heat, mechanical load, ultraviolet composite, potential induced degradation (PID).

PV Tech spoke with Tongwei’s vice general manager of PV business, Yan Li, about its ten-year mark, the launch of a new TOPCon module line and the rollout of its Global Partner Programme.

Canadian solar PV module manufacturer Heliene has doubled the capacity of its Mountain Iron, Minnesota module production line to 300MW following an extra US$10 million investment into the facility.

Solar manufacturer GCL SI is among the companies that will be present at COP28 and with whom PV Tech was able to speak with Zhang Kun, executive president of GCL SI about what it expects from COP28, the pledge to treble renewable generation capacity and what the solar industry can bring to the conversation in Dubai.

China is on track to install a record 230GW of new solar and wind capacity this year, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie.