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FuturaSun enters Australian PV market

As Chinese-headquartered module suppliers continue to dominate the Australian PV market, FuturaSun is hoping to find a niche for its Chinese-made modules. In a...

New CdTe panel manufacturer

American manufacturing of thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panels has been the sole domain of First Solar for the last decade — but now,...

Colored PV module performance is underestimated

Since 2014, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has been testing different kinds of innovative solar panels, including BIPV modules with different colors, at...

REC Group mulls French module gigafactory

Norwegian solar manufacturer REC Group has told pv magazine it is considering establishing a 2 GW heterojunction module factory in France. “After the successful launch of the revolutionary REC Alpha solar panel at...

Fine-tuning plasmonic solar cells

In recent years, plasmonic enhancement has been used in a wide variety of research aimed at improving the efficiency and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells....

Assessing impact of residual stress in solar cells

Residual stresses are those that remain in a solid material even after external loading or thermal gradients that cause them are removed. In some...

Harvesting atmospheric water to cool down PV panels

Scientists from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have developed a cooling solution for photovoltaic panels that uses a sorption-based atmospheric...

500 W-plus panel race intensifies with JA Solar’s new module and Risen’s first shipment

Chinese module giant JA Solar has announced plans to join the bevy of manufacturers launching 500 W-plus solar modules by claiming its high-power product...

Investigating backsheets and ultraviolet stability

Historically one of the most problematic components within PV modules, backsheets have been observed to degrade in outdoor conditions and, in many cases, to fail completely,...

French solar equipment supplier touts fully automated production line

The Covid-19 health crisis has highlighted a number of weaknesses in European industry including the solar sector, which is heavily dependent on solar cells...

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China CORNEX signed cooperation agreement with the Italian Cestari Group

On November 13, CORNEX signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Italian company Cestari Group in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. According to the agreement,...

Solar Leader Enphase Energy Cutting 500 Jobs

California-based Enphase Energy, a company known for its solar power and electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, announced it is laying off about 500 workers....

Cincinnati’s solar array powers city operations, tens of thousands of homes

A sprawling solar array in Highland County now powers 20% of Cincinnati's operations and tens of thousands of homes. Cincinnati’s 900-acre solar farm was completed...

1.2-GW solar panel assembly facility to open in Puerto Rico

A contract solar panel assembly facility will soon open in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, that will supply the utility-scale market on the island and hopefully...