Industry Updates

As the size of PV modules increases, the ability of a product to withstand extreme climatic conditions throughout its life cycle has been the subject of intense scrutiny within the industry. 

JinkoSolar has announced that 10MW of its advanced Tiger Neo 605W solar panels are to be installed on the rooftops of a number of schools in Hainan province’s Dongfang city. The Tiger Neo, featuring the company’s innovative N-type cells, is one of the most powerful panels on the market today, providing outstanding output, generating a maximum 610W from its 156 cells while simultaneously minimizing power loss.

With the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic Games already in full swing, the newly completed Olympic venues and supporting facilities have been unveiled. 

where economies can be achieved at the system level. Non-module costs include ‘area-proportional’ elements such as racking, land, construction and transportation and those linked to electronic components that are quoted in terms of power rather than area. Today, the value of module efficiency has become greater, increasing the incentive to adopt higher efficiency and high power products.

Sungrow has announced that it has supplied its string inverter solutions to the PV plant installed on the rooftop of the National Speed Skating Oval (known as “The Ice Ribbon”) in Beijing. The venue will host speed skating during the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games and the rooftop plant represents a significant step in achieving a carbon neutral Olympics.

With the technical expertise it has accumulated over the past two decades, LONGi is able to fully commit to providing full scenario product protection, ensuring reliability under all application scenarios. Based on the company’s brand concept of ‘customer value first’, ‘LONGi Lifecycle Quality’ was established to guarantee that its products perform reliably and efficiently throughout their lifespan, allowing clients to achieve a high return on investment throughout the entire lifecycle of a PV plant. 

Sungrow has announced that it was recognised at last week’s World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi with the 2022 MESIA solar award of “Regional Technology Provider for Inverters,” endorsement of the company’s outstanding performance in the Middle East and North Africa over a number of  years.

“The new AXE LV battery system covers a wide range of capacity extending from 5kWh to 400kWh, catering for differentiated needs from daily household to large business and industrial scenarios,” commented Lisa Zhang, the company’s  Marketing Director.

2021 saw GoodWe achieve significant global growth over 2020, with an impressive five-fold increase in its business in Italy. During the same period, VP Solar, a major distributor of energy systems not only in the Italian market, but also across a number of European countries, recorded even higher growth, continuing to offer solutions to its clients during a challenging time of marked global shortages.

Yingli Energy has announced that the launch of China’s first demonstration line for the recycling and processing of modules will see its new production capacity in Tianjin, Lixian and Hengshui put into operation, with a total of some 8GW of capacity released.