China PV News Snippets
Versolsolar Upgrades Windstream Deflector Bracket System For High Power Modules & More From Jinchen, Shunhai, Maxwell
Versolsolar upgrades windstream deflector bracket system to withstand typhoon level 12; Jinchen secures 2.5 GW order from India’s Waaree; Shunhai’s BIPV robotic cleaning system gets WRCA certification; Maxwell in Forbes China’s 2022 Innovative Enterprises List.
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Total Eren Proposes 2 GW+ Solar Project In Australia
MoU Signed For Over 2 GW Solar Powered 1 GW Green Hydrogen Electrolyzer Project For Northern Territory
French renewables company Total Eren has proposed to develop a green hydrogen project in Northern Territory (NT), Australia with more than 2 GW solar PV capacity powering 1 GW hydrogen electrolyzer to produce over 80,000 tons annually.
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North America PV News Snippets
Maiden Utility Scale Solar & Storage Plant For Hawaii’s O’ahu Online & More From Massachusetts, Activate, Sol Systems
SEIA hails Massachusetts passing Act 5060 into a law as groundbreaking for renewables; Clearway commissions 39 MW solar+156 MWh storage project in O’ahu; Activate Renewables purchases over 115 MW RE; Sol Systems’ 5 MW AC bifacial solar plant online in New York.
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China PV News Snippets
SPIC HJT cell technology finds investor & More From JinkoSolar, Risen, BOSHIAC
Beijing Lingjun New Energy will invest in SPIC C-HJT cell technology; JinkoSolar among Top 50 Forbes China Most Innovative Companies; Risen to invest RMB 3 bn in silicon metal; BOSHIAC wins RMB 52 million order; China’s new energy grid-connected consumption report released.
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China PV News Snippets
Autowell Announces H1 2022 Results & More From Xianglu Tungsten, S.C New Energy, CNNC HUA, JYT
Autowell registers profit in H1 2022; Xianglu Tungsten enters PV ultra-fine tungsten wire area; S.C New Energy achieves RMB 508 million net profit; CNNC Hua Yuan to set up new energy material company; JYT Corporation 10 GW ingot project discontinued.
Shoals Technologies’ Q2/2022 Revenues Up 23% YoY
Strong Q2 For Shoals Technologies As Backlog & Awarded Orders Increase Annually
US based Shoals Technologies Group reported a healthy Q2/2022 having grown its annual revenues by 23% to $73.5 million, while backlog and awarded orders improved 63% to $327.2 million as order patterns ‘normalized’ with the White House’s 2-year tariff exemption for solar panels acting as a ‘turning point’ in customer sentiment.
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Polysilicon Prices To Fall ‘Steeply’ By 2023-Start
Rethink Energy Expects Global Polysilicon ‘Overcapacity’ In Coming Decade
Analysts at UK based market intelligence firm Rethink Energy see global polysilicon production capacity to increase to 1,170,000 tons in H2/2022, reaching 1,595,000 in H1/2023, up from 880,000 tons today, leading to its prices declining ‘steeply’ from the beginning of 2023.
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LONGi Expanding Ingot & Wafer Capacity By 26 GW
LONGi Updates 20 GW Monocrystalline Silicon Wafer Capacity Addition Plans To 46 GW
One of the world’s largest solar PV manufacturers, LONGi Green Energy Technology is to add another 26 GW of silicon ingots and wafer capacity in China’s Inner Mongolia, expanding its planned capacity increase here from 20 GW to 46 GW.
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JERA To Invest In Vietnamese Renewables Company
600 MW Strong Renewables Platform Gia Lai Electricity To Get JERA As 35.1% Investor
Japanese power generator JERA has announced it will acquire 35.1% equity interest in Vietnamese renewable energy company Gia Lai Electricity Joint Stock Company (GEC) with its close to 600 MW portfolio, including projects under construction.
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Non-Asian Silicon Wafers For Meyer Burger Technology
Meyer Burger To Source Silicon Wafers Of European & US Origin From Norwegian Crystals
Norway headquartered monocrystalline ingot, bricks and wafer producer Norwegian Crystals (NCR) has been contracted under a binding supply agreement to provide silicon wafers to European solar cell and module maker Meyer Burger Technology AG.
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Forming Emitters For Sunny Side Of Solar Cell
While Low Pressure Diffusion Is The State Of The Art, Processing Larger Wafers And Higher Productivity Are The Key Areas Of Focus For Diffusion Tools Suppliers
Diffusion is the most predominant technology employed for the solar cell’s emitter formation, typically accomplished in diffusion furnaces.
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Reverse-Bias Challenges For Perovskite Cells
UNSW Researchers Explore Approaches To Preventing Reverse-Bias For Perovskites
Researchers from Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW) explore challenges for perovskite solar cells under reverse-bias conditions, and propose strategies to address them in new study published in scientific journal Joule.
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The Status Quo of HJT Processing
Huasun CTO Wenjing Wang About Latest HJT Developments And What’s In Store For The HJT Shooting Star From China
TaiyangNews: What was it that attracted Huasun to HJT? Wenjing Wang: The first driver is our technical background; both our operation and R&D teams have a solid background in HJT.
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PERC Still Has Some Juice To Optimize Costs
With Optimized Material Consumption And Improving Productivity, PERC Cells Still Have A Bit More Potential To Reduce Costs, While Efficiency Is At Limits
No discussion about solar cells is complete without involving cost and efficiency – the 2 measuring sticks of progress.
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Module Design Dictated by Application
Not only is module design becoming application centric, PV is increasingly “integrated” to other applications
When it comes to PV modules, the solar industry has made quite some progress over the past year — and it continues the highly dynamic trend we have seen over the last 3 years as it strives to reduce costs, a result of higher cell and module efficiencies.
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Potential For Further PERC Cost Reduction
TaiyangNews Talked to Leadmicro CTO on Future of PERC Cell Technology
PERC is the workhorse of today’s solar industry. While there are serious efforts to commercialize further advanced cell technologies, stakeholders work hard to further improve incumbent PERC to continue solar’s cost reduction path.
Reports & Market Survey
550 MW Solar Tender Launched In Greece
PPC Renewables Seeking Bids For 550 MW Solar Power Plant At Macedonia Former Lignite Mine
The renewable energy arm of Greece’s Public Power Corp (PPC), PPC Renewables has launched a competitive selection process seeking bidders for 550 MW solar power plant to be located at the former lignite mine of Ptolemaida in Macedonia municipality.
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India Seeking Feedback On Rooftop Solar Net Metering
MNRE Taking Steps To Promote Rooftop Solar In Rural India Via Virtual/Group Net Metering
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in India has invited feedback on draft standard operating procedure (SOP) document for the implementation of virtual net metering (VNM) and group net metering (GNM) mechanisms to encourage use of rooftop solar among rural households.
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Global PV Tender Snippets
Solar PV Tenders From India’s Central Electronics Limited & MSEDCL
This is a weekly overview on solar tender information TaiyangNews has published as part of stories on its website over the course of the past week – this time on India’s Central Electronics Limited & MSEDCL.
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MSEDCL’s 298 MW AC Solar Project Tender
Expression Of Interest Invited For 298 MW AC Decentralized Solar Capacity
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (MSEDCL) has invited expression of interest (EOI) for 298 MW AC solar power capacity from decentralized projects in Maharashtra to be consumed for agriculture load at local level, thereby bringing down distribution losses.
Top Solar Modules Listing – July 2022
Monthly TaiyangNews Update on Commercially Available High Efficiency Solar Modules
In our latest monthly ranking of commercially available solar panels 26 products are listed from most of the global leading module suppliers; that’s one module more compared to previous month, and it also shows few changes in the ranking.
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Top Solar Modules Listing – June 2022
Monthly TaiyangNews Update On Commercially Available High Efficiency Solar Modules With New No. 2
In this 7th version of our monthly ranking of commercially available solar panel products from most of the global leading module suppliers 25 products are listed, that’s the same number as in the previous month but with few changes.
New CEO For Premier Mounting Technologies
Michael Jakal Joins German Solar Mounting Solutions Provider As New CEO
Bavaria, Germany based solar PV module mounting solutions provider Premium Mounting Technologies (PMT) has announced the appointment of Michael Jakal as the company’s new chief executive officer.
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New Reno Ferrero Family Chair At UC Merced
Sarah Kurtz Becomes 2nd Woman To Hold An Endowed Chair At UC’s School Of Engineering
Electrification Professor at UC Merced, the newest campus in the University of California, Professor Sarah Kurtz has become the 2nd woman to hold an endowed chair in the School of Engineering after she was awarded the Reno Ferrero Family Chair in Electrical Engineering.
