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Solinteg’s new hybrid inverters come in seven versions with nominal power ranging from 3 kW to 9 kW, an efficiency rating of 97.6%, and a European efficiency of 97.0%. They measure 534 mm × 418 mm × 210 mm and weigh 27 kg.

A number of Chinese PV companies – including Jinko Solar and Golden Solar – released their first-half earnings results this week.

Arctech has released a novel dual-row, single-axis solar tracker for use in different climates and topographies.

Korea Electric Power Corp. will act as a sales intermediary under South Korea’s so-called K-RE100 scheme.

Vikram Solar has unveiled new mono PERC bifacial modules with front-side power outputs from 635 W to 660 W. The modules feature glass-to-glass construction and provide up to 25% bifacial gain.

Intraco Solar Power has completed a 30 MW grid-tied solar power plant in Bangladesh.

An Iranian research group has developed a system that combines photovoltaic-thermal modules with organic Rankine cycle, a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer, and liquefied natural gas. The ideal system has an exergy efficiency of 16.24%, a cost rate of $4.48 per hour, and 33.32 kW of net electrical power.

Sungrow told pv magazine at the recent Intersolar South America event in Sao Paulo that its cumulative delivered capacity in Latin America now stands at 9 GW, with 6 GW of the total delivered to Brazil alone.

China’s Arctech has opened a 3 GW solar tracker factory in India that will produce all of the major components of its solar tracker products.

Clean Energy Associates says solar wafer pricing will fall by 23% by the end of 2023, while BloombergNEF sees 500 GW of manufacturing capacity online by the end of next year.