SunPower has always been a leader in terms of N-type cells. In the PV EXPO this time, they still focused on N-type mono-si cells with high efficiency and reliability. They also revealed modules with conversion efficiency up to 20....  more

Looking back to the PV industry last year, wafer price reflected an uptrend after cell and module manufacturers started to gain profit. Manufacturers are looking forward for a price-hike as they are positive about the demand in 2...  more

  With the rise of renewable energy market and the government subsidy program in many countries, including Japan. Solar power plants installation rate has been rapidly growing. Resulting from this, Taiwan has had many bid...  more

The competition and collaboration among the manufacturers within PV supply chain keep repeating itself in the rapid-changing PV industry and it happens to be the same in the inverter market. During the downturn of solar market in ...  more

Japan’s photovoltaic (PV) market is the fastest developing market in 2013, attracting many Chinese and foreign PV manufacturers to enter the country’s market. Shipments to Japan have shown linear growth this year. Ph...  more

China Sunergy released the 1Q13 financial report on July 1st, 2013. The overall net sales turned out to be better compared with last quarter. Shipments totaled 102.5MW, a 30.7% increase in contrast to previous quarter. The gross m...  more

JA Solar’s financial structure is relatively complete among all the large first-tier Chinese manufacturers, which can be rare in the PV storm throughout the globe. Recently, JA Solar’s vice president, Bill Chen, has ...  more

  GTAT exhibited its DSS 450 MonoCast at SNEC PV POWER EXPO 2012, which is claimed to be capable of producing mono-like ingots with mono’s  conversion efficiency and multi’s cost. Given the weak market demand...  more