SolarSpace is an emerging PV manufacturer from China. The company started its solar journey in 2011 with a focus on cell manufacturing and established its first cell production facility in 2016. In 2021, SolarSpace also entered the module business by establishing its first module fab. It currently has 6 manufacturing bases with a production capacity of 40 GW for cells and 6 GW for modules.
SolarSpace claims to be the fourth-largest cell supplier in the world and the top cell supplier to India. It offers M10 TOPCon bifacial solar cells with efficiency ranging from 24.8% to 25.3%. The company's PERC cell products are available in both the leading formats, M10 and G12. The bifacial M10 PERC cells are offered with an efficiency between 23.3% and 23.5%, while the G12 products have a slightly lower efficiency range from 23.2% to 23.4%. SolarSpace still lists 157 mm multicrystalline cells as part of its cell product portfolio on its website.
The company's latest Lumina II series based on TOPCon cell technology has 3 main products: one mid-sized module for C&I and utility applications and 2 residential rooftop modules. All TOPCon products of the company are based on M10 cell size, are bifacial, half-cell, and MBB modules interconnected with 16 busbars. The major difference is the number of cells. The module built with 144 half cells has a power rating of 585 W and 22.65% efficiency, making it a larger module. Both of the residential modules are built with 108 cells and have the same power rating of 430 W corresponding to 22.02% efficiency. The only difference is that one of them is an all-black module, but it still has the same performance as the regular product (see Top Solar Modules Listing—September 2023).
The text is an excerpt from TaiyangNews New Solar Products Overview H1/2023, which can be downloaded for free here.