Industry Updates

AIKO and the Brunel Solar team, known for its engineering expertise in solar car racing, have  announced a strategic partnership for the 2024 Sasol Solar Challenge, a collaboration bringing together AIKO’s state-of-the-art solar cells and the Brunel Solar team’s cutting-edge solar car design, setting the stage for a powerful synergy in one of the world’s most challenging solar-powered competitions.

Solis (Ginlong Technologies) has announced that it has been ranked number 1 for global residential inverter shipments in the latest Wood Mackenzie inverter market share report.

JA Solar has developed a distributed PV power system for Libai Group, a leading player in China’s daily chemical industry, to help decarbonize its factories, with the project’s first phase, with a capacity of 3.7 MWp, completed and connected to the grid.

Trinasolar’s Vertex N 720W modules have excelled in stringent UV testing with an industry-leading degradation of 1.6% after being exposed to 300kWh/m² of frontal UV irradiation (UV300), certified by China’s General Certification Center.

Astronergy has contributed to the completion of a 400MW Solar+Grazing integrated project in China’s Qinghai Province.

GoodWe has launched its LVSMT-US inverter to meet the needs of small C&I installations in the US.

With rapid economic development and increasing energy demand coupled with limited land availability, floating solar presents an attractive solution by generating clean energy without using valuable land space.  

Grand Sunergy has once again been successful in its bidding in the 2024-25 procurement process for the supply of 2GW of heterojunction modules to CNNP Rich Energy and Xinhua Hydropower, both centrally owned state-owned companies.

DAS Solar's Zhangzhou base has become the company’s first zero carbon factory, receiving certification from TÜV SÜD.

DAS Solar ranks 8th for global module shipments in H1 2024 according to InfoLink Consulting. The company has also achieved an A rating in the Q2 PV ModuleTech bankability ratings report, further underlining its status among the industry’s top 10 players.