Manufacturing

Bhavish Aggarwal, chief executive officer of Ola Electric, announced their lithium battery cell gigafactory in Tamil Nadu will become operational next month.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

JinkoSolar is offering its n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) patents to competitors to encourage technological development and prevent legal conflicts.

Emmvee Photovoltaic will supply 300 MWp of bifacial mono PERC panels for KPI Green Energy’s solar park in the Khavda village of Gujarat.

Average sales prices of Chinese power cells at the end of 2023 were half of what they were at the start of the year, according to TrendForce. Despite the drop, the research firm says prices should stabilize in the second half of 2024.

Cleantech Solar will develop 150 MW of solar PV and 16.8 MW of wind-generating assets in Tamil Nadu, supplying around 7.3 GWh of clean electricity to First Solar’s new 3.3 GW vertically integrated solar manufacturing facility in the state. The solar component of the project will utilize First Solar’s India-made Series 7 modules.

Erisha E Mobility will invest INR 6,900 crore in setting up an electric vehicle park, charging infrastructure, and green hydrogen production facilities in Gujarat.

Advait Infratech will invest in the manufacturing and assembly of fuel cells and electrolyzers in Gujarat. Waaree will set up a green hydrogen/green ammonia production facility along with hybrid (solar, wind) renewable energy generation.

Fly Solartech Solutions Srl’s new 60-cell modules have a power conversion efficiency of 17.87% and a temperature coefficient of -0.27% per degree Celsius. The company offers the panels with 300 W, CEI-021-certified microinverters featuring 96.5% peak efficiency.

Akcome says it hopes to soon start commercial production of its heterojunction (HJT) perovskite solar cells, but it has yet to provide a specific time frame.