Industry Updates

Trina Solar has announced that its Vertex S ultra-high performance rooftop module series has won the Red Dot design award for its advanced design concept and positive user experience. The award is considered the ‘Oscar’ for product design and Trina is the first PV module manufacturer to receive it. The company’s latest upgraded Vertex S and Vertex 580W modules will be officially launched at Intersolar Europe on May 11.

Chinese inverter manufacturer KSTAR will launch a new series of residential hybrid storage systems at Intersolar Europe. The 3-Ph BluE Residential ESS integrates its own inverter technology with a lithium-ion storage solution from China's CATL and comes with adjustable power in each phase, supporting diesel generator control (DI/DO).

LONGi has released its 2021 and Q1 2022 annual report to global shareholders, revealing that the company has maintained stable operations and achieved significant global shipments of products throughout the period. 

Solis will showcase 3 new energy storage inverters at Intersolar Europe (Munich, 11-13 May, booth B3 430).

JinkoSolar has announced that it has won a contract with GroupShops, a procurement and project management company in Israel, to provide 621 of its full black BIPV modules for a rooftop project with the country’s National Library in Kiryat HaLeum, Jerusalem.

Growatt has received the 2022 Red Dot Product Design award for its recently launched Infinity 1500 portable power station, the award jury recognising the solar generator for its innovative roof-rack-style design and exceptional user-oriented features as well as for significant advances in technology.

Chint Solar has announced a new collaboration with Intec Energy Solutions (INTEC) for the construction of a new solar photovoltaic plant in Arges county, southern Romania. The facility is expected to have a capacity of 154 MWp, making it the country’s largest installation of its kind.

The quest to find the ideal balance between efficiency and cost optimization is never ending in the photovoltaics industry. N-type cells, well known for their high efficiency, have started to come to the fore, with the industry placing a major bet on the technology. According to the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH), the maximum theoretically possible efficiency for PERC, HJT and TOPCon cells is 24.5%, 27.5% and 28.7% respectively.

  Dr Yifeng Chen, head of Trina Solar’s high efficiency cell and module R&D center, has addressed  attendees at PV CellTech 2022 in Berlin and spoken of the company’s advantages and most recent R&D breakthroughs with P-type and N-type cells.