Featured in Electric avenues – 09-2017

Prodding new markets

Module assembly: As solar PV becomes more accessible and affordable across the globe, more nations are turning to local PV manufacturing in a bid to stimulate the development of their renewable energy markets. Against the backdrop of tightening competition and rising quality expectations, pv magazine sheds light on emerging solar module manufacturing locations and their chances against mayor upstream PV hubs.

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Marija Maisch

05 Sep 2017

This semi-automated 30 MW production line, supplied by Mondragon Assembly, is located at Shams Technology in Tunisia.

Amid a combination of the accelerating trend of local content production, the search for new and more affordable ways to access power in response to growing demand, and central governments’ backing to the creation of green jobs, the number of countries in which module manufacturing is carried out is constantly increasing. Consequently, the PV production …

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