manufacturing

Adequate training and employing people with different skills are some areas US solar companies are working on, as these are crucial to driving the solar industry to succeed.

OMCO Solar has opened its sixth manufacturing facility in the US, and will provide backrails for First Solar’s new Series 7 modules.

Longroad Energy has extended a module supply agreement with First Solar, and now expects to acquire an additional 2GW of First Solar modules.

SolarPower Europe has warned of the “deeply precarious” impacts of collapsing costs in the global solar sector.

Ampt has announced plans to deliver 195MW of string optimisers to a “utility-scale solar-plus-storage project” in North America.

Trina Solar plans to build a new module manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas, with a production capacity of 5GW.

By the end of 2023, PV production capacity will exceed 450GW, putting TOPCon technology first in market share in the following years.

Silfab Solar and NorSun plan to expand ingot and wafer production facilities in the US, to benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act.

REC Silicon has signed a supply agreement with Hanwha Qcells Georgia to supply high-purity fluidised bed reactor granular polysilicon.

Chinese module manufacturer DMEGC Solar has started commercial operations at its new Lianyungang manufacturing base in eastern China.