Manufacturing

Chinese solar manufacturer Longi has developed a new “anti-dust” module for the commercial and industrial (C&I) market in Australia. The frame sits flush against the glass on the short side, allowing water to wash off.

Delta Electronics, which has been present in India for the last 20 years, recently launched its containerized data center solution in the country. With all subsystems such as UPS, power distribution, battery, cooling, and racks well integrated, this plug-and-play solution ensures rapid deployment for edge computing applications in the IoT world. On the occasion, pv magazine spoke to Rajesh Kaushal, vice president of Delta Electronics India, about their containerized data center solution, lithium-ion battery and solar inverter business, and future plans for India. 

The novel methodology is reportedly able to track global maximum power point and reduce power losses in partially shaded PV systems by up to 33%. It uses a backstepping controller (BSC) algorithm to adjust the pulse width modulation signal and a genetic algorithm to compute the BSC gains to achieve an optimal PV system outcome.

Matrix Gas & Renewables stated the capital raise will accelerate its green hydrogen production projects and hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturing plant, in addition to advancing the company’s growth in the gas aggregation business.

Sunpure will supply Larsen & Toubro with water-free PV cleaning robots for the world’s largest utility-scale hydrogen plant powered entirely by renewable energy.

An international research team has developed a novel way to remanufacture fully encapsulated perovskite solar cells after recycling. The researchers say the devices can achieve 88% of the original efficiency of the products.

Onix Renewable said it intends to use the proceeds from the issue to finance its renewable power projects and scale up solar module production capacity to 1.2 GW.

REC has developed a new series of residential heterojunction solar panels with efficiencies ranging from 20.6% to 22.2% and an operating temperature coefficient of -0.24% per degree Celsius.

A research team in Germany claims to have achieved the highest open-circuit voltage ever recorded to date for a perovskite solar cell based on hybrid methylamine lead chloride (MAPbCl3). The novel perovskite absorber was fabricated with a two-step deposition method and annealing under molecular nitrogen (N2) gas inside a glovebox.

The production of PV ingots and wafers remains the most highly concentrated of all the production stages in the silicon solar supply chain. Yet efforts to re-establish production in Europe and the United States are not for the faint-hearted.