Featured in Solar springs eternal – 09-2023

Manufacturing everywhere

Large parts of the history of the modern solar industry have been written by China’s manufacturers. Key developments such as the achievement of vast scale in production; the lock-step development of material, equipment suppliers, and manufacturers; and the adoption of technology such as bifacial cells and modules, took place in China and have changed the […]

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Jonathan Gifford

07 Sep 2023

Photo: pv magazine/Milton Arias Millan

Large parts of the history of the modern solar industry have been written by China’s manufacturers. Key developments such as the achievement of vast scale in production; the lock-step development of material, equipment suppliers, and manufacturers; and the adoption of technology such as bifacial cells and modules, took place in China and have changed the …

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