Industry Updates

Two key products from Huawei’s FusionSolar Residential Smart PV product suite --- the SUN 2000 Smart Energy Controller and the LUNA 2000 Smart String Energy Storage System (ESS) --- have been recognised with iF Design awards for 2021, the company has announced.

Ginlong Technologies (Solis) has announced that it has collaborated with UK renewable energy company Engenera to install a rooftop solar power system for plastics manufacturer Faerch Plast. At 2MW, utilizing Solis 110kW inverters and with over 4,000 modules, this is a substantial large scale rooftop installation.

Sungrow has announced that it has supplied its inverter solutions to the world’s largest commercial & industrial rooftop PV plant. Located at an industrial park with 43 rooftops in Jining, in China’s Shandong province, the 120MW plant is expected to generate an annual 110 GWh of energy, powering the industrial park facilities and feeding the excess electricity produced into the grid as one of the region’s grid-parity projects.

Trina Solar has conducted stringent dynamic mechanical load testing (DML) of its 210 Vertex 670W module, comparing it with competitors’ single-glass 540W and dual-glass 535W modules in extreme environments based on International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards. The testing demonstrated that the Vertex module delivered better performance in terms of DML reliability and, with the double-glass 210 mm Vertex also passing extreme 20,000 cycle, 20-fold testing, its DML reliability has been fully validated.

According to the latest policy of China's National Energy Administration (NEA), the state entity wants selected countries to have at least 20% of all residential roofs equipped with solar energy, as well as at least 30% of commercial and industrial structures, 40% of non-governmental public buildings, such as hospitals and schools, and half of the roofs on national estates. It is foreseen that this policy will boost the growth of distributed solar in the domestic market.

LONGi has been recognized with the 2021 Intersolar award in the Photovoltaics category for its high efficiency Hi-MO 5 (182mm) series module during an online ceremony forming part of the smarter E industry days held by Intersolar’s organisers.

LONGi has announced a new world record of 25.19% for P-Type TOPCon cell conversion efficiency, only one month after the company broke the previous record of 25.09%. The new record, based on monocrystalline cells developed at LONGi’s Cell R&D Centre, was confirmed in testing carried out at the German Institut für Solarenergieforschung (ISFH), and raises the conversion efficiency of cells based on CZ wafers to a new level.

To meet the booming demand of the solar and energy storage industries, Kehua plans to increase its production area by 14,000 square meters in 2021.

During SNEC 2021, LONGi demonstrated its technology, management and customer values to be above and beyond basic industry benchmarks and launched LONGi Lifecycle Quality, the first such standard for the solar PV industry, aiming to provide global customers with access to the highest levels of quality and reliability throughout the lifecycle of the company’s product portfolio. From module design, through mass production to post-sales support, LONGi adheres to its core concept of 'Customer Value First' and ensures that quality practices are incorporated at every stage of production and application.

KSTAR has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for a 76MW project in Ukraine with the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) and a major UAE based PV developer.