Industry Updates

Growatt has signalled its entry into the portable power station market with the launch of its Infinity 1500 product.

KSTAR will be taking part in next month’s Intersolar Europe exhibition in Munich (11-13 May), showcasing a number of its most popular product offerings, including the KSG-120CL inverter, a three-phase device with a DC voltage of 1100V, widely used for distributed commercial systems and large-scale centralized power plants.

Maxwell has announced that it has achieved a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 25.62% on a full size (M6, 274.5cm²) HJT cell, using low-indium transparent conductive oxides (TCO) combined with silver-coated copper paste, creating a new world record certified by the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Germany.

JinkoSolar has announced it has won a 100MW order to supply its Tiger Neo modules to the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) for an upcoming project in China, indicating that the company, the country’s biggest solar power developer, is moving its preferred technology toward the more advanced n-type TOPCon.  

Growatt has announced the signing of a 120MW contract with Pakistan’s National Machinery Corporation (NMC), marking another significant strategic move for the company in the country.

Based on the EU's stated green energy objectives, Bulgaria has incorporated renewable energy into its key national development blueprint, which has seen a recent proliferation of photovoltaic power stations. In the south of the country, in the village of Apriltsi, construction of the world's largest HJT solar park has recently been completed, with Huasun Energy one of the main module suppliers.

Trina Solar has announced that it has reached the significant milestone of having shipped 100GW of modules in the 25 years since the company was founded in 1997. During this period, Trina has set a total of 23 world records for cell conversion efficiency and module output power, firmly establishing itself as an industry leader in technology and innovation.

A solar power plant installed on the roof of Istanbul’s Nef Stadium by Enerjisa Enerji on behalf of local football club Galatasaray S.K. has begun generating energy.

KSTAR has provided its GSM3125D-MV35 turnkey solution for a 100MW PV project in China’s Qinghai province. The project is expected to generate an annual 167 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy, saving 53,500 tons of standard coal and eliminating 166,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

When choosing a switch to use in an electrical design project, there is a perception that it is possible to use any switch, provided its current rating is greater than the maximum load in the circuit. This is not true.