Industry Updates

The Indian textile industry has taken a significant step towards a greener future with the installation by a manufacturer in Tamil Nadu of a solar power plant deploying LONGi's high-efficiency Hi-MO 5 solar modules.

LONGi has provided an update on the status of a 1.2MW rooftop system at the Mabati Milling premises in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the first in East Africa to utilize Hi-MO X6 modules, showcasing the potential for industrial-scale solar solutions in the region.

The Tongwei Group has risen in the Fortune Global 500 rankings for the second year in a row, reaching 467 in the recently released 2024 edition.

The event, held in Shenzhen, brought together industry leaders and experts from the APAC region to discuss the enhancement of grid-forming technology to support the region's transition to a sustainable and resilient power system.

The next edition of Intersolar South America, LATAM's largest exhibition and conference for the solar industry, takes place at the Expo Center Norte in São Paulo, Brazil, on August 27–29.

Maxwell Technologies has released a research paper in conjunction with a number of universities including Nanchang University, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Henan Normal University, introducing findings showing that strained heterojunction enables high-performance, fully textured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells to achieve an efficiency of up to 31.5%. 

Runergy has announced a strategic partnership with Vietnamese project developer Bigbang Solar for the expansion of solar projects across the country.

DAS Solar has announced that its PV testing laboratory has received ‘witness laboratory’ certification from TÜV Rheinland.  

AIKO has announced the results of a comprehensive report produced by Enertis Applus+, an established global authority on renewable energy consulting, engineering and quality control, highlighting the superior performance and cost efficiency of its ABC modules compared to TOPCon and PERC modules from two leading competitors.

Huasun Energy has shipped over 100MW of its high-efficiency heterojunction (HJT) PV modules to Pakistan, in a significant milestone in its relationship with the country.