Chinese PV Industry Brief: Longi raises PV wafer prices, new entrant switches on 15 GW of wafer capacity
GokinSolar has commissioned the first 15 GW unit of its 50 GW PV wafer manufacturing facility in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province and Golden Solar New Energy Technology last week announced commercial production plans for the flexible, lightweight, cast-mono, heterojuntion (HJT) solar modules. Meanwhile, Longi has raised the prices of its wafers.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Work begins on 12 GW heterojunction module factory in Zhejiang
Furthermore, Zhonghuan Semiconductor’s parent company has reported strong results for its PV business and solar developer Shunfeng has halted trading in its shares.
PV glass producer plans new factory in India
Auto glass producer Asahi India Glass and polymer packaging specialist Vishakha have revealed plans to jointly set up India’s largest solar glass plant in the state of Gujarat. The factory will initially have a capacity equivalent to 3 GW of solar installations per year.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: New heterojunction equipment factory in Jiangsu province
Maxwell Technology is planning to raise RMB2.3 billion (US$356 million) for a new HJT equipment production base in Suzhou City, Jiangsu province. Furthermore, Ginlong has reported its profits grew by more than 100% in the first half of the year.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Slightly lower polysilicon prices and another 20 GW of PV wafer capacity
According to the China Nonferrous Metals Association, polysilicon prices declined by around 1.4% last week. In other news, Gaoce announced another 20 GW PV wafer factory and Hareon Solar filed for bankruptcy.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Mixed financial results for wafer and module makers
Preliminary results were published for Solargiga, Zhonghuan Semiconductor, GCL System Integration, JYT Corporation and Akcome Tech.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Tongwei plans 200,000 MT polysilicon factory
The new polysilicon factory will be located in Leshan City and will be built thanks to an investment of $2.1 billion.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Zhonghuan lowers wafer prices, Golden Glass sets up 1.2 GW HJT module line
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.
New process to recycle silicon, silver and glass from end-of-life PV panels
A €4.8 million EU-funded research project is aiming to develop a process that allows recovering all components of a photovoltaic module.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Earthquake disrupts wafer production in Yunnan and Qinghai
Solar manufacturers Longi and Zhonghuan Semiconductor have reported output at their factories in the two provinces has been reduced by earthquakes that happened on Friday night and before dawn on Saturday. Elsewhere, module maker Jolywood has announced the signing of an agreement with the city government of Taiyuan, in Shanxi province, to build a TOPCon solar cell fab with a 16 GW production capacity.
