module manufacturing

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has extended the deadline for the bid submission of domestic manufacturing of PV modules in India.

Two Indian state-owned companies, Bharat Electronics and NHPC, have signed a MOU to establish a gigawatt scale solar manufacturing site in India.

REC Solar and its parent company, Reliance Industries, have ramped up recruitment of staff for its India solar manufacturing plant.

Module manufacturer REC Solar has been selected by the European Union to receive a grant to support a 2GW heterojunction (HJT) solar manufacturing plant in France.

Indian energy giant Tata Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian state government of Tamil Nadu to invest roughly INR3,000 crores (US$380 million) in setting up a 4GW cell and 4GW module factory in the state.

Chinese module manufacturer JinkoSolar has powered its first overseas factory with renewables only in Malaysia.

REC Group is on track to reach 1.2GW of heterojunction (HJT) module production capacity in Singapore as it also progresses with the construction of a solar manufacturing plant in India.

Canadian Solar has unveiled a new PV manufacturing strategy, bringing more upstream capacity inhouse to reduce its exposure to pricing volatility.

Chinese solar manufacturer Risen Energy has started production at its 120μm heterojunction (HJT) solar cell production line in Changzhou City, China.

Canadian module manufacturer Heliene has seen unprecedented demand for its modules following the US Department of Commerce’s (DOC) decision to investigate alleged anti-dumping and circumvention (AD/CVD) by solar manufacturers in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, which continues to spread chaos across the US solar sector.