Industry Updates

JinkoSolar has announced the signing of a strategic co-operation agreement with CIMC Raffles, a leading offshore EPC company, to mutually develop offshore solar projects based on Jinko’s leading N-type technology.

LONGi has announced a new world record conversion efficiency of 26.5% for its silicon heterojunction (HJT) photovoltaic cells. The new record, validated in testing carried out by the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany, was achieved on M6 (274.4cm2) full-size monocrystalline silicon wafers, marking a new breakthrough in efficiency for large-size monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic cells.

Zonergy has been a pioneer in smart microgrid integrated solutions since 2007, offering an extensive product portfolio across the four major categories of residential, commercial and large-scale power station products and PV modules.

With the market's increasing demand for efficiency and quality, monocrystalline N-type cells have over recent years become a hot technology for the industrialization of high-efficiency cells, due to their high oligomeric life, low photoluminescence, good low light response and high temperature coefficient. Among conventional PERT and passivated contact TOPCon cells, the boron diffusion process has restricted the development and industrial application of N-type technology due to its complexity in preparation, high temperature and high equipment and maintenance costs.

The project, with a total installed capacity of 70MW, is located in Cangzhou, in China’s Hebei province, and is fully equipped with Trina Solar Vertex 670W and n-type 690W modules.

JinkoSolar has announced the signing of a contract with Yalong Hydro for 287.4MW of its n-type Tiger Neo modules. Located in Sichuan Province’s Yajiang County, the project will exclusively deploy Tiger Neo bifacial modules (72c), further evidence of the growing popularity of Jinko’s high-efficiency n-type modules for large-scale projects.

Growatt has exhibited at GENERA, Spain’s major event for the solar and storage sectors, showcasing its diversified smart energy solutions, including its battery-ready energy storage system, high power C&I inverters, smart EV chargers and new solar generator – the Infinity 1500 portable power solution.

600W+ modules in a webinar hosted by PV Tech. Empirical data analysis of ultra-high power PV modules dominated the session, with experts from TÜV Rheinland, CPVT and Trina Solar itself looking at the reasons behind 210 Vertex’s high energy yield.  

LONGi has supplied 19.2MWp of its high-efficiency modules for a project at Changi airport, designed and executed by Terrenus Energy, a leading solar IPP in Singapore, awarded phase 2 of the ‘SolarLand’ project (SL2) by JTC Corporation.

Sungrow has announced it is to make its award-winning portfolio of inverters available in the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish markets, with a knowledgeable local team and plans to implement on-the-ground support covering project management, commissioning and operations and maintenance.