Industry Updates

Sungrow has announced the signing of a contract to supply inverters for the 200MW Kom Ombo project in Egypt, following an agreement between ACWA Power and the EPC contractor Sterling and Wilson. The project will be the country’s largest privately developed utility-scale solar plant and will increase the share of renewable energy in Egypt’s energy mix in line with national targets.

KSTAR has announced the completion of a 600kwp rooftop PV project equipped with its KSG-120CL string inverters at the premises of Lekok Paper in the city of Melaka, the latest in a long line of projects in Malaysia for which the company has supplied string inverters in recent years.

Growatt has won an ‘All Quality Matters’ award at the 2021 edition of TÜV Rheinland’s solar congress for the outstanding performance of its ARK battery in the organisation’s PVE Test Program.

Testing at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany, has confirmed that the conversion efficiency of N-type monocrystalline bifacial TOPCon cells developed at LONGi’s Cell R&D Center has reached 25.09%, the first time that the efficiency of a TOPCon cell based on a commercial size silicon wafer has exceeded 25%.

Sungrow has released its 2020 annual report to shareholders, showing that the company’s fiscal performance remains very positive, with global market share reaching 27%.

Sungrow has announced the roll out of its new SBR series residential energy storage systems (ESS) for Australian households, comprising hybrid inverters and high-voltage batteries, enhancing the reliability and affordability of the country’s renewable energy solutions.

Sunport has announced that, after four months of testing following initial installation, the first industrial off-grid project in Japan to be equipped with MWT panels has entered operation and begun generating power. With an attached power storage system, the rooftop plant in Nagano will provide the factory beneath with clean electricity for self-utilization.

GoodWe has announced that it has won the AQM award in the residential medium power category at the recently held TÜV Rheinland congress. This is the sixth consecutive year that the company has been recognised by TÜV Rheinland and it cements its position as a leader in the distributed generation sector.

JA Solar has announced that its DeepBlue 3.0 module has received the ‘All Quality Matters’ award for Energy Yield Simulation in the monofacial mono group.

JinkoSolar has announced that it has won an award for Green Module Efficiency at the 7th All Quality Matters solar congress held by TÜV Rheinland. The award recognizes the high-efficiency performance of the company’s N-type bifacial and monofacial monocrystalline Tiger modules and marks another milestone after previous awards for Module Energy Yield Simulation in both mono and poly groups.