PV Tech sat down with Alastair Mounsey, Regional Sales Director at JA Solar, to talk about the transition to n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) cells and modules, the state of the European solar market and what will define a successful PV manufacturer in the coming years.
Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies' shipments in the third quarter could drop by about 23% quarter-on-quarter to only 622MW due to a reduced shipments to a US customer and a drop in demand in the global distributed generation (DG) market.