1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (278+ words) German solar wafer manufacturer NexWafe and US-based cell producer Talon PV have signed a wafer supply agreement in the US. The agreement would see NexWafe supplying its proprietary wafers from its pilot-scale operation in Bitterfeld, Germany. Over time, the collaboration…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (291+ words) Testing and Certification company UL Solutions has launched a new cybersecurity certification programme for distributed energy resources (DER). The new programme " dubbed as a first industry-wide cybersecurity baseline by UL Solutions " will also cover inverter-based devices, such as microgrids, rooftop…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (165+ words) The number one source for in-depth and up-to-the-minute news, technical articles, blogs and reviews on the international solar PV supply chain. JinkoSolar launches dust-resistant module The new module delivers core advantages through four key technological features: 1. Anti-static and anti-adhesion: The…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (289+ words) Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy ISE have claimed two new record efficiencies in tandem PV modules. Both are based on III-V semiconductor materials derived from elements in groups III and V of the periodic table, which offer…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (256+ words) Solar manufacturer Jupiter International has commissioned its third PV cell production line at its Baddi facility in Himachal Pradesh, doubling its manufacturing capacity. The expansion adds 1GW of mono passivated emitter rear contact (PERC)cell production capacity to Jupiter's existing 959MW base,…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (354+ words) India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has released the fourth revision of its Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) II for solar cells, increasing the total enlisted manufacturing capacity to 26GW." The approved model, EVT-M10-BR-PERC, delivers an average…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (287+ words) Sineng Electric completes grid requirement testing for project in the Philippines'PV Tech Sineng Electric completes grid requirement testing for project in the Philippines Sineng Electric, in partnership with global solar developer ib vogt, has supplied its string inverters for the…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (263+ words) Two separate research papers published this week offer fresh insights into the performance of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar modules, including the discovery of a new degradation mode that arises under damp-heat conditions. They are the latest in a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (267+ words) LONGi has announced that its Hi-MO 9 HPBC 2.0 module has been awarded full scenario application certification for environments including lakes, deserts, ice and snow and marine areas by China's National Centre for Supervision and Inspection of Solar Photovoltaic Product Quality (CPVT)…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (413+ words) Fraunhofer ISE researchers are exploring the potential of medium-voltage PV technology to reduce the need for increasingly scarce and costly raw materials such as copper and aluminium. Under a project dubbed "PVgoesMV, the German research institute plans to build and…...