Chinese PV Industry Brief: Daqo wiped debts as poly price continued to rise
The worldwide solar boom is proving so profitable the polysilicon manufacturer is even thinking of turning to PV panels to power its manufacturing operations, rather than cheap coal.
India tenders 1.2 GW of wind-solar hybrid projects
Developers have until Dec. 6 to bid to set up a cumulative 1.2 GW of wind-solar hybrid capacity on a build-own-operate basis, anywhere in India.
Jinko and Tongwei strengthen supply chain tie-up
The former has committed to invest more than $70 million into a 100,000-ton polysilicon production line in Leshan that will then supply it with 30,000 tons of its output annually.
Mathematical model to predict rooftop PV system yield
Scientists in India developed a mathematical model to predict the output of solar cells and modules in the field. The model was developed and tested using both sun simulator and actual installed modules. The scientists state that their model can be applied to a PV installation anywhere in the world, and that by taking into account module degradation over time their forecasts can be as much as 26% more accurate than existing energy yield models.
SolarEdge posts more record numbers and says the good times are set to continue rolling
The inverter and battery manufacturer said it has been sitting on a record order backlog for the current three month window and the opening quarter of the new year, which may in part be down to a long Covid shutdown at its Vietnamese production base.
EDP becomes largest shareholder of Sunseap
The operation is part of the Portuguese utility’s plan to deploy another 13 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025.
GCL-Poly says staff at state company gave misleading responses to investigation into problematic pre-payment
“Junior” figures at state-owned Sinomec Refinery & Chemical Corp told investigators from then-GCL auditor Deloitte that most of an advance payment made for a granular silicon plant had been passed on, in a bid to dissuade GCL from halting the EPC contract, the solar manufacturer said on Friday.
IPO to finance first slice of planned 500 MW-plus solar field in the Philippines
Solar Philippines will tap stock market investors to back the first section of a solar project in Luzon it says will eventually be the largest in the region.
Module price hike impacting middle-sized PV projects in South Korea
The continuous rise in solar panel prices may affect PV projects of up to 1 MW tendered by the Korea Energy Agency and the domestic solar module industry may not be able to provide the necessary production capacity to respond to the recent supply bottleneck.
Analyzing the opportunity for perovskite solar module production in India
Scientists in India conducted a techno-economic analysis for a 100 MW production line for carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules, located in Himachal Pradesh, India. The analysis concludes that, even at the smaller scale, this emerging technology could achieve cost levels comparable with today’s silicon solar products.
