Industry Updates

Goodwe has been recognized as the No.1 rooftop solar inverter supplier in India with a 17% market share, according to JMK Research & Analytics.

Tiger Pro high-efficiency modules have been selected for a growing number of projects around the globe, proving that the benefits provided in terms of system stability and cost-efficiency have been recognized by our customers. Apart from selecting the best module when designing a PV power plant, cabling is also an indispensable component and cable selection is a crucial step in order to achieve lower LCOE.

LONGi has announced that its Module Testing Centre in Taizhou has been awarded Proficiency Testing Laboratory status by China’s National Institute of Metrology (NIM), the nation’s highest research facility for measurement science and a national statutory authority in the field of metrology.

LONGi has announced that it has supplied 1.2 MW (2,663 units) of its innovative Hi-MO 4 solar modules to Sinomachine Technologies, a Morocco based company, for a project financed by the European Bank, MOSEFF and Societe Generale Marocaine de Banques.

Huawei has launched its latest cutting edge FusionSolar Smart PV offerings at a special industry event in Sydney, to meet the growing demands for smarter solutions in a booming Australian solar sector in which 4,000MW of new capacity was added in 2020, taking total capacity to nearly 20,200MW.

According to JMK Research’s latest annual India Solar Report Card, LONGi has emerged as the sub continent’s leading supplier of solar modules in 2020, with a 15.6% share of total shipments of some 9478 MW.

Sungrow has announced that, following agreement and recent issuing of an NTP (“Notice To Proceed” or “Service Order”) with Focus Energia, an integrated energy business platform, the company will supply inverters and MV stations for the implementation of the first phase of the Futura Project, an 852 MWp solar park that will soon be one of the largest in operation in Latin America.

The internationally authoritative third-party organization DNV GL carried out the third round of assessment of the BOS costs and LCOE of Trina Solar’s 210mm Vertex module in February. The assessment took place in Aomori prefecture, Japan, with BOS costs and LCOE compared between two sets of 210mm Vertex and 182mm modules, both with landscape-fixed tilts. According to the resulting report, Trina’s Vertex 210mm 545W mono-facial module can cut BOS costs by up to 6.3% and LCOE by 5.8% compared with the 182mm 535W mono-facial module used in the assessment. The Vertex 600W mono-facial module was also shown to perform as well in reducing BOS and LCOE (5.6%) as a 182mm 585W module used in the comparison exercise.

Guangzhou Development New Energy Co., Ltd. recently began the bidding process for procurement of PV modules for 2021 and 2022. The procurement process is divided into two bidding sections with a total procurement scale of 1.08GW. The power threshold for the PV modules in the two bidding sections is set in advance, with module current not to exceed 15A, illustrating that system safety and high power are equally important. Limiting the current level of modules can effectively improve a project’s economic efficiency, also providing a strong guarantee of system safety and compatibility.

JinkoSolar has announced that, according to the 2020/21 ‘Global PV Installer Monitor’, the company has both maintained its leading position as the most well-known PV module brand in the Australian market in 2020 and achieved the status of most purchased brand among those Australian installers surveyed.