Industry Updates

With a total installed capacity of 100MW, a solar power plant located in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was connected to the grid at the end of June, 30MW of the capacity utilizing Antaisolar’s Helios D2 solar trackers.

A new 250kW offshore smart energy storage project has been completed on an island in Thailand’s Andaman Sea. It involves 250kW of PV panels, a KSTAR GSE 250T bi-directional converter and 1MWh OPZV battery, working together with a wind turbine and diesel generator combination to provide clean and reliable electricity to the homes of 300 local fishermen.

The 58th edition of the ‘Solar cell efficiency tables’ has been released, including reference to the world records set by LONGi’s N-type TOPCon and HJT technology in early June.

According to IHS Markit’s latest PV inverter market tracker report, Kehua ranked 9th among global suppliers in 2020.

JinkoSolar has announced that it has entered into a partnership with one of Vietnam’s major module companies and signed the first batch of residential energy storage orders. For the Vietnamese market, the launch of JinkoSolar's residential storage system will act as a strong support in the development of a local power infrastructure and provision of more stable electricity to meet residential needs.

Trina Solar has successfully completed non-uniform snow-load testing at the CGC East China PV Testing Center with its new-generation Vertex 670W modules. Results demonstrated that the critical snow-load of the five modules tested exceeded 6,600 Pa, actually reaching 7,000 Pa, equivalent to the pressure generated by 2.8 meters of snow, much higher than conventional non-uniform snow-load norms. This represents proof of the excellent snow-load resistance of Vertex 670W, the strength convergence of the non-uniform snow-load testing reflecting the product’s consistently excellent quality.

In recent testing of home storage PV systems carried out by the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in Berlin, GoodWe’s hybrid inverters and high-voltage batteries were once again outstanding.

"The current status of the energy storage industry is much the same as that of the photovoltaic industry ten years ago", is an opinion expressed by many professionals in energy storage. The reason why the PV industry is taken as a benchmark for the energy storage sector stems from the decline in costs and the speed of expansion over the past decade, which mirrors what is happening in the energy storage field. To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, energy storage and new energy will need to serve as a combined solution to environmental and economic challenges and there is still some way to go in this regard.

JinkoSolar has taken part in the inauguration of the Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed 50MW solar park in Blitta, Togo. The event marked the country’s first utility-scale renewable energy project to be developed by an Independent Power Producer (IPP) and, as one of the largest solar PV IPP plants in West Africa, counted on the attendance of the President of Togo, plus IRENA, AMEA and other international organizations.

German manufacturer AE Solar has become one of the leading solar panel suppliers to Poland in the upper average to premium category niche and has now been recognised in the country’s AIEM measurement tests carried out by the Alter Energia organisation, based on technical and economic parameters, including suitability for central European climatic conditions.