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Fei Lu and Stephen Xuereb of PI Berlin offer an overview of the present trends in module quality assurance and likely future challenges.

The 480MW CEME1 PV project in Chile has started commercial operation, and is the country’s largest solar project by capacity.

Chinese solar manufacturer DAH Solar has started construction of a 10GW vertically integrated solar plant in China.

Carbon plans to launch the first part of its module production facility in autumn 2025, ahead of a ramp up to an annual cell capacity of 5GW.

Chinese solar manufacturer JinkoSolar has provided 1.1 million modules to solar developer Move On Energy’s 650MW solar park in Germany.

Scientists from the University of New South Wales have found that TOPCon modules endure “significant degradation” in damp heat testing.

Chinese module manufacturer GCL System Integration Technology (GCL SI) has shipped 16.42GW of solar module capacity in 2023.

Boviet Solar will build its first North American production facility in Greenville, Pitt County, in the US state of North Carolina.

HY Solar is planning 16GW of n-type cell production capacity in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia.

Trina Solar’s latest 210mm n-type industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact (i-TOPCon) module has achieved a maximum power output of 740.6W.