solar manufacturing

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.

Professor Martin Green expects the larger companies to survive the current pressures in the solar industry which keeps adding capacity.

India's solar module exports to the US and Europe will likely to peak in 2025 and experience a decline starting from 2026 as domestic manufacturing plants will be operational in these regions, according to a recent research from energy analyst JMK Reseach.

The European Solar Manufacturing Council offers several recommendations for the EU and solar companies to address forced labour in the supply chain.

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has secured 4GWp of solar module contracts during the RE+ event in Las Vegas.

Multiple European cell and module manufacturers, start-ups and solar PV component suppliers have published an open letter via the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC), urging the EU to take actions to safeguard the European PV manufacturing industry threatened by "unsustainably low-priced PV modules" from Chinese module manufacturers.

US thin-film solar PV manufacturer First Solar has disclosed unethical labour practices at its factory in Malaysia.

Brookfield Asset Management and Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to pursue renewable energy manufacturing opportunities in Australia.