Solar Media’s head of market research, Finlay Colville, explores the most critical PV cell technology trends of the next few years as the industry continues to move away from p-type technology
Sungrow has announced during its participation at Intersolar South America that its cumulative shipments to Latin America have now reached 9GW. The company also debuted its “1+X” modular inverter, the SG350HX string inverter and a new commercial and residential innovation, fuelling the energy transition and improving grid stability and power supply resilience.
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has delayed its preliminary decision into its investigation into alleged circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) by solar manufacturers in Southeast Asia following a request by Auxin Solar, the company that launched the initial petition.
LONGi has announced that, in collaboration with Power n Sun (PNS), one of the major players in the Middle East’s distribution market, total shipments of its Hi-MO 5 modules to the region exceeded 275MW in the first half of 2022.
Nextracker is opening a solar tracker research and development (R&D) facility in Brazil through a partnership with non-profit organisation Flex Instituto de Tecnologia.
PV ModuleTech EMEA in Malaga on 29-30 November 2022 will address the factors underpinning the changing PV module landscape, gathering together all the key stakeholders across the value-chain from module production to field
testing. Join us for presentations from the leading players in the sector, clearly identifying the opportunities and challenges set to impact module supply to Europe and the Middle-East over the next few years.
JinkoSolar has announced the signing of a contract with Yalong Hydro for 287.4MW of its n-type Tiger Neo modules. Located in Sichuan Province’s Yajiang County, the project will exclusively deploy Tiger Neo bifacial modules (72c), further evidence of the growing popularity of Jinko’s high-efficiency n-type modules for large-scale projects.
India’s solar sector is in a tricky place at the moment, with module price inflation, manufacturing incentives and geopolitical events causing disruption to the industry, pushing up average tariffs and lowering returns on solar investments. PV Tech Premium picks apart what is going on behind the scenes.
Last week saw yet another price increase from some of the solar industry’s largest manufacturers, continuing a trend that has placed some of the sector’s largest providers under heightened margin pressure and PV project developers the world over under strain.
