Jiangsu Zhongli Group, the technology and science group including integrated PV manufacturer Talesun, has guided Q1 2020 net loss due to COVID-19 impacts even as it approved plans for a US$222m raise.
Leading monocrystalline wafer producer and ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member LONGi Green Energy Technology (LONGi Group) has guided for a trebling of net profit increase for the first quarter of 2020, up 210% compared to the prior year period.
China-based PV backsheet and high-efficiency PV manufacturer Jolywood (Suzhou) Sunwatt Co expects to report a small loss in the first quarter of 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19 on its materials and solar module manufacturing operations.
Jolywood (Taizhou) Solar Technology Co, the PV module manufacturing arm of major PV backsheet manufacturer Jolywood (Suzhou) Sunwatt Co said it had made a conversion efficiency breakthrough with n-type TOPCon (Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact) high-efficiency bifacial solar cells.
Inline solar cell measurement equipment specialist, Aurora Solar Technologies (AST) has received a new order from an existing PV manufacturing customer located in China.
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has dismissed patent infringement claims regarding its IP on shingled-cell solar modules made by Solaria as "meritless and unfounded".
Russia-based high-efficiency heterojunction solar module producer starts producing heterojunction cells using the M2+ (157.35 mm x 157.35 mm) n-type mono wafer, providing cell peak power up to 5.88Wp.
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) members JinkoSolar and LONGi Solar have said that Hanwha Q CELLS ‘215’ patent case is expected to fail at the first leg of wider legal action.
PV and electronics equipment manufacturing and automation specialist is planning to resume manufacturing operations at its German sites after the Easter break, having closed three weeks ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
