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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.

JinkoSolar has published its latest sales figures, having shipped over 52GW of modules in the first nine months of the year.

Hamburg-based energy startup 1Komma5° has planned to set up a 5GW tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) module assembly plant in Germany.

Spanish utility Iberdrola and Spanish solar PV manufacturer Exiom have received the first equipment for the production of solar PV modules in Spain.

Gautam Solar plans to double its annual module production capacity to 2GW by the end of next year through an investment of US$17 million.

SolarSpace has started cell production at its latest manufacturing facility, a 5GW factor in the Saysettha Development Zone in Laos.

Some highlights in pictures of the latest edition of RE+ 2023 that was held in Las Vegas earlier this September.

By the end of 2023, PV production capacity will exceed 450GW, putting TOPCon technology first in market share in the following years.

Silicon Module Super League member Trina Solar has started supplying 488MW of its n-type industrial tunnel oxide passivated contacts (i-TOPcon) modules to a power station in Qinghai province, China.

JinkoSolar is currently on track to regain the position of number one module supplier by volume in 2023, fulfilling a three-year goal.