The PV module manufacturing subsidiary of Canadian Solar, CSI Solar, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Astronergy has launched its newly upgraded ASTRO N n-type TOPCon module – ASTRO N7 - at an official ceremony held at SNEC 2023, receiving IEC certification from TÜV Rheinland at the same time.
China's PV module companies released their financial reports for 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 at the end of April, with some of the leading manufacturers posting strong performance.
Italian solar manufacturer FuturaSun has signed a strategic agreement with the government of the city of Huai’an in China to build a 10GW solar cell manufacturing plant.
A newly released report has placed JinkoSolar as number 1 for global sales in the first quarter of the year, having shipped 13.04GW of modules, of which almost 50% was made up of its N-type Tiger Neo product. The figure represents a 72.7% growth compared with the same period in 2022.
The US market is expected to see a strong uptick in overall module supply, both domestic and overseas, in 2023. Alongside this will be a range of different module technologies, making the US market the most differentiated from a technology standpoint this year.
TÜV Rheinland held a ‘Global PV Buyers’ Workshop’, inviting some 20 representatives from the industry’s downstream players to take part. Brookfield Renewable, BayWa, Engie, TotalEnergies and Lightsource BP and others, and companies mainly engaged in development and operations such as ACWA Power, Bouygues and ECADI shared their thinking from different perspectives on module quality and procurement strategies.
