LONGi has released its 2025 annual report, showing that, despite challenges from industry-wide supply-demand mismatches and low-price competition in the PV sector, the company achieved continuous reductions in unit manufacturing costs, period expenses and asset impairment losses through management innovations and cost-efficiency initiatives, helping to significantly narrow its net loss.
“We have copper shortages, aluminium shortages [and] all kinds of raw materials are struggling,” says Global Electronics Association's CEO, John Mitchell.
US community solar developer Renewable Properties has acquired 118MW of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar modules from US solar manufacturer First Solar.
US solar permitting delays are raising costs and slowing deployment, with PV Tech speaking to Crux experts on implications for developers and the wider PV industry.