Industry Updates

The C4 workshop at Huasun Energy’s Xuancheng cell factory has reached a significant milestone, achieving a monthly output of 251.45MW in June and 252.36MW in July respectively, figures which each surpass the initial designed capacity of 250MW per month and set a new benchmark for the heterojunction (HJT) industry.

SOFAR India has organized a seminar in Ahmedabad, on the theme of "Unlimited Energy, Infinite Possibilities".

DAS Solar has been awarded a silver medal in the 2024 EcoVadis sustainability ratings, ranking in the top 15% of over 100,000 companies evaluated and receiving the highest score among representatives of China's PV industry.

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.