solar manufacturing

PV Tech Premium spoke with analysts about the rejection of phasing out the net metering scheme and the subsidy for manufacturing modules and batteries.

Headlines in the media in recent weeks and months regarding the plight of the European PV industry have not made for pleasant reading. However, the situation is far from bleak for companies and research institutes across Europe today.

The European Parliament and European Council have agreed new regulations to boost EU's solar manufacturing.

Several US senators have urged the Biden Administration to increase tariffs on Chinese-made PV module, cell and wafer imports, claiming they are a threat to US solar manufacturing.

German chemical group Wacker Chemie has posted the financial results of 2023 with its polysilicon business falling by 61% due production-related reasons.

Germany's BSW has announced a proposal to restore and strengthen the entire value chain of the European solar production industry.

The growth of global annual solar PV installations will start to slow this year, including the US, according to Woodmac.

PV Tech spoke with Jinko’s Victor Wei and Wally Zang, Senior IR Director and Technical Service Centre  General Manager respectively, about the company’s investment in TOPCon, its fully vertically integrated plant currently being built in China’s Shanxi province and how it is looking at module products for deployment in offshore solar projects subject to hail conditions.

Located in Tamil Nadu, the manufacturing plant produces First Solar’s Series 7 thin film cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules.

The guidelines clarify definitions of eligible components and detail the amount of tax credit for eligible solar components.