Indian PV manufacturer Emmvee has partnered with Fraunhofer ISO – a leading solar research centre – to build a 1.5GW solar cell manufacturing facility near Bangalore, southern India.
The Indian government has decided to relax the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) for two years, in a move to boost installed solar capacity.
US PV incentives should be entirely focused on solar cell manufacturing in the short term, with maximum incentive rates given to domestic solar cell production that ultimately has a risk-free supply chain of materials and equipment, writes Finlay Colville, head of research at PV Tech.
Chinese solar cell manufacturer Aiko Solar plans to issue a global depository receipt and apply for a listing on the Swiss Stock Exchange to improve its competitiveness.
With silicon material and wafer prices on the rise, the impact is being felt further downstream amid warnings module prices could continue increasing this month.
2022 saw the arrival of DAS Solar as one of the PV industry’s rising stars, the five-year-old company attracting strategic investment from, among others, China Merchants Venture Capital, Three Gorges Capital and Yongfu Shares.
