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Researchers from Hong Kong have applied a novel charge-reinforced, ion-selective (CRIS) membrane to a polysulfide-iodide redox flow battery they had built in 2016. The redox flow battery showed a capacity decay rate of just 0.005% per day for 1,200 cycles, and a lifetime with over 2,000 hours’ cycling, which the academics said corresponds to approximately three months.

Manufacturer Golden Glass is planning to set up a 1.2 GW heterojunction cell and module production line in Jiangsu province and Trina Solar and China Petrochemical Corp will work to reduce the carbon footprint of the latter’s gasoline stations.

The device has a maximum power output of 6 kW and a storage capacity of 8.2 kWh. The product comes with IP65 protection and its operation is guaranteed for 10,000 cycles.

The two big solar players are preparing to list big slices of their business on the STAR market tech board.

Electricity bill payers in nations as diverse as Germany, Greece, India and China should be aware new solar projects can now generate electricity cheaper for them than legacy coal and gas-fired plants.

With trading in its Hong Kong-listed stock still suspended, the project development arm of the polysilicon manufacturer has continued its drive to sell down its portfolio to state-owned institutions.

The announcement was given by the Chinese module maker in its financial statement for the first quarter of the year. The company also stated it shipped 5.35 GW of PV products in the period from January to March and that its revenue and profits declined by 6.4% and 21.7% year-on-year, respectively.

Triumph Group is planning to build a $1.71 billion PV glass factory in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province. Longi has maintained unchanged the prices of its wafers for July.

Huawei launched its All-Scene FusionSolar + Storage Solution at this year’s SNEC Expo 2021. In the following week, it announced a new business unit, Huawei Digital Power Technology. pv magazine spoke with Chen Guoguang, President of Huawei Smart PV to discover the company’s strategy and vision for the future of solar PV.

The new hybrid inverter series has an efficiency of up to 98.2% and a European efficiency of up to 97.4%. The device offers multiple connections with a maximum of 10 units in parallel to expand the AC output power.