Industry Updates

JinkoSolar has announced that Forbes China has placed the company in the top 50 of its 2022 list of most innovative companies.

Antaisolar has announced the establishment of a global R&D centre in the Spanish capital, Madrid, representing a new milestone for its technical R&D and business development.

Kehua Tech has launched its latest all-in-one residential energy storage system, the iStoragE series. Incorporating a hybrid inverter and battery pack, iStoragE provides users with a simple, safe and smart solution for enhancing the safety of home electricity.

The 14th Sichuan Games opened earlier this week at the Olympic Stadium in Leshan City, its opening ceremony featuring for the first time the lighting of the inaugural flame using solar energy, with  JinkoSolar N-type Tiger Neo panels chosen to be installed on site for this high profile event.

A 200MW PV power project in the city of Zhangye, in China’s Gansu province, is now operational, deploying Trina Solar 210mm Vertex 670W modules.

The standard operating temperature of a PV module is higher than the ambient temperature. Under continuous exposure to extreme high temperatures, the temperature of a module at a solar power plant can reach 75°C or more, and the working temperature of its internal cells may be even higher. 

GoodWe has been listed in the top three hybrid inverter suppliers for 2021, with a global market share of 13%, according to research company Wood Mackenzie.

LONGi has announced that its central R&D institute has officially commenced operations at the company’s global headquarters in Xi’an. The institute, which incorporates a high efficiency monocrystalline cell centre with a pilot production line, will primarily provide R&D technical support and patent reserves for the industrialization of the next generation of LONGi products.

Due to continual exposure to high temperatures, high humidity and large amounts of dust, PID (Potential Induced Degradation) is unavoidable for PV modules and research indicates that permanent PID leads to power generation loss of up to 30%.

Over the past decade, the growth of the global photovoltaics (PV) industry has been impressive, with significant technological developments made in both laboratory and industrial mass production. As illustrated in Figure 1, new technologies have emerged during this period and cell efficiencies have increased rapidly. The laboratory efficiency of a monocrystalline silicon cell has reached 26.7%, with the emerging Perovskite and Si tandem cell technology reaching 29.8%.