Last week, French PV startup Carbon announced plans for an integrated European PV manufacturing facility to produce an initial capacity of 5GW of cells and 3.5GW of modules. The company spoke to PV Tech Premium about its short and long-term plans, and why Europe needs a PV manufacturing ecosystem.
Solar PV manufacturer QCells has announced that Dr. Danielle Merfield will join the company as its new global chief technology officer, with a view to accelerating its US technological advances.
French PV manufacturing startup Carbon has chosen a location for a proposed cell and module gigafactory which it plans to bring into operation in late 2025. The plant would be Carbon’s first production facility.
Researchers in Singapore have found a less environmentally damaging way to produce perovskite solar cells in a laboratory, removing the need for lead which had previously been used.
PV manufacturer Risen Energy has recorded a 23.89% efficiency rating on its Hyper-ion heterojunction technology (HJT) solar module, which it claims is a new world record for HJT module efficiency.
Solar manufacturer Trina Solar and Qcells parent Hanwha Solutions have reached a patent licensing and transfer agreement with each other over their respective intellectual property and settled their patent dispute, they said in a joint statement.
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have reportedly achieved a 30.3% efficiency rate for a test-size perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell.
