As solar penetration rises, project developers are facing tighter grid availability, curtailment, and pressure on project economics, making flexibility and smarter plant design increasingly important. The TaiyangNews Virtual Conference on Solar & Storage Power Plant Developments will bring together developers, EPCs, procurement managers, and technology suppliers to discuss how battery storage, advanced trackers, high-power modules, hybrid generation, and other plant-level technologies are shaping the next generation of utility-scale solar projects.
Ayim De La Fuente, Product Manager at TrinaTracker, will discuss how to maximize energy yield through smart tracker operations.
The conference is scheduled from 09:30 to 13:00 CEST on Thursday, September 17, 2026. Register for free here.
Back-contact cell and module manufacturer AIKO has begun delivering ABC modules for a PV project developed by Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group in Hongshagang Town, Minqin County, Wuwei, Gansu province. Located in the Tengger Desert, the project will use 1.04 million ABC modules totaling 677.99 MW, supplied by AIKO, the sole successful bidder for the second module supply package. The company described it as China’s largest single-site BC utility-scale PV project to date.
AIKO said the modules’ Partial Shading Optimization feature has achieved a Class A rating under TÜV Rheinland’s partial-shading test standard, helping mitigate the impact of sand and dust shading. Their single-sided soldering process and steel-frame design are intended to improve resistance to mechanical loads and microcracking. A temperature coefficient as low as -0.26%/°C helps the modules maintain higher output for longer under high-temperature conditions. The company said these features are designed to support module performance under the desert’s harsh conditions.
CSP developer Cosin Solar has secured filing approval for a 350 MW molten-salt tower concentrated solar power (CSP) project in Golmud, Qinghai province. The project is part of Qinghai’s first batch of independent CSP projects for 2026 and will be built at the Wutumeiren East CSP Base. It will comprise a 350 MW molten-salt tower CSP system and associated facilities, with a heliostat field of at least 3.3 million m² and a 15-hour molten-salt thermal energy storage system.
The project will be Cosin Solar’s second 350 MW tower CSP plant in Golmud. The company is currently constructing its first 350 MW tower CSP project at the Wutumeiren PV and CSP Park in Golmud, which is scheduled to achieve full-capacity grid-connected operation in 2027 (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Huawei Digital Power has announced that its Smart I-V Curve Diagnosis solution has received Level 5 certification from the China General Certification Center (CGC), the highest level under the certification scheme. The company said it is the first solution in the industry to receive the certification.
The solution uses Huawei Digital Power’s latest SUN2000-460KTL smart string inverter for high-precision sampling, and a collaborative multi-expert-model diagnostic architecture at the plant level. The company claims it achieves 99% recall and precision in fault diagnosis and adds dedicated diagnostic capabilities for complex mountainous environments and smart scheduled-diagnosis functionality. It can quantify energy-yield losses associated with faults and automatically prioritize operation & maintenance (O&M) tasks. Huawei estimates that, under typical conditions, deployment at a 1 GW PV plant could reduce ineffective O&M work by 30% and increase power generation by 1%.
The SUN2000-460KTL inverter received Grid-Forming capability certification from TÜV SÜD last month (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) have issued a notice on cost accounting for industrial sectors facing pronounced disorderly low-price competition. The notice sets out the forms, basis, and requirements for cost accounting and provides guidance for the process.
Cost calculations should in principle be based on an operator’s individual cost of producing a specific product. Where individual costs cannot be determined, industry-average costs may be used as a reference, with an appropriate downward adjustment. Industry associations and other relevant organizations may calculate average industry costs with guidance from government and industry authorities. The NDRC said it will also promote the development of industry association standards for cost accounting while strengthening price monitoring and enforcement.
In the PV sector, the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA) issued and implemented the General Principles of Cost Accounting Models for the Photovoltaic Industry in July. The association standard covers four manufacturing segments: polysilicon, wafers, cells, and modules. It establishes three cost-accounting levels – cash cost, production cost, and full cost – and can be used by companies for cost self-assessments and internal identification of price-compliance risks.
