Featured in Distributed bliss – 06-2022

Structural matters

While it comes with clear performance advantages, the move to larger module formats has created plenty of confusion since it began in 2019. As the dust settles and standards emerge, pv magazine caught up with Hongbin Fang, director of product marketing at Longi Solar, to discuss the latest on wafer and cell dimensions.
An EL image on a 66-cell module deploying 210 mm wafers. | Image: Longi

Hongbin Fang, director of product marketing at Longi Solar. Image: Longi In September 2021, Longi, JA Solar and Jinko formed an alliance to standardize the use of M10 wafers. To turn this wafer format into the new go-to standard requires more module makers to join the alliance. Have you seen interest from other manufacturers to …

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