Central & East Asia

This week, module manufacturers around the world have announced new manufacturing facilities, and new records for their modules.

PV Tech Premium speaks to Gautam Solar, about its plans to double its module manufacturing capacity to 2GW by the end of this year.

City University of Hong Kong has announced an improvement of perovskite solar cells as a research team engineered a type of self-assembled monolayer and anchored it on a nickel oxide surface as a charge extraction layer.

LONGi has chosen to develop back-contact (BC) cells, again based on n-type technology, announcing plans to invest RMB3.92 billion (US$536 million) on production. Future cells will be based on the company’s HPBC ‘PRO’ high-efficiency technology, with roll-out expected to gradually commence from November 2024, reaching full capacity a year later.

The average price of solar-grade polysilicon has dropped from the peak of RMB240,000-250,000/tonne (US$32,856-34,191) at the beginning of the year to RMB70,000-90,000/tonne.

The net income of JinkoSolar subsidiary Jiangxi Jinko has reached RMB6.54 billion (US$894.1 million) in the first nine months of 2023.

India’s cabinet has approved a 13GW renewable energy project, which a 7.5GW solar park, in the most northern state of Ladakh.

Canadian Solar says the private placement provided the company with enhanced liquidity and flexible funds to grow its subsidiary Recurrent Energy's global business.

Trina Solar has announced that it will supply some of its latest Vertex solar modules to the 2GW Ningxia solar project in China.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India has launched a request for selection for 1GW of new solar projects to be built within India.