Manufacturing

Longi has announced the achievement of 27.09% efficiency for its heterojunction back contact (HBC) solar cell, a result that has been confirmed by Germany’s Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH).

India’s Howd Innovations (Solar Yaan) has launched three-phase string inverters with capacities ranging from 5 kW to 25 kW.

A global research group has designed a novel PV module cooling system based on multiple cooling sources. The proposed system was able to reduce a PV system temperature by up to 16.7 C and increase power output by over 9%.

Prices for p-type PERC solar panels could cross the €0.10 ($0.1093)/W threshold in the first quarter of 2024, says Leen van Bellen, business development manager Europe for Search4Solar, a Dutch purchasing platform for PV products. He told pv magazine that European stocks are expected to shrink, and that prices should recover in the middle of the second quarter of 2024.

The government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for electrolyzer manufacturing has received an overwhelming response with bids received for 2.28 times the capacity to be awarded.

Aether Industries has announced entry into the electrolyte additives and battery space after a substantial contract signed with an undisclosed lithium-ion battery producer.  

OCIM, a South Korean polysilicon manufacturer, will supply CubicPV with U.S.-compliant silicon for development of solar wafers.

Vikram Solar will supply mono PERC bifacial PV modules to NTPC’s Nokh solar power project in Rajasthan. This order will take Vikram Solar’s cumulative NTPC portfolio to 947 MW.

The Union Minister of State for New & Renewable Energy, Bhagwanth Khuba, also exhorted the manufacturers to be reasonable in pricing solar modules and not take undue advantage of basic customs duty by spiking domestic panel prices.

The Chinese PV inverter manufacturer has surpassed 10 GW of solar inverter shipments in India.