VIDEO: Mono-PERC will be solar’s ‘workhorse’, says LONGi

April 2, 2019
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Speaking on the sidelines of the recent PV CellTech 2019 conference, Hongbin Fang, technical director of LONGi Solar, says the company’s manufacturing expansion in Malaysia is a testament to the customer demand for mono-PERC modules. Fang describes mono PERC, including bifacial modules, as the likely “workhorse” for the solar industry in the near-term.

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