JinkoSolar announced it plans to build a solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia. The expected production capacity is 500MW for PV cells and 450MW for modules. Located in Penang, Malaysia, the manufacturin...  more

SolarWorld AG has been consistently investing into high efficiency technology. At its site in Freiberg, Germany, the group will upgrade its solar cell production step by step to the PERC technology, reaching a cell capacity of aro...  more

1366 Technologies and Hanwha Q CELLS have entered into a long-term strategic partnership to jointly advance the efficiency and quality of solar cells while dramatically reducing their costs. The two companies will collaborate on t...  more

Yingli Green Energy announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Singapore Company Pte. Limited (Yingli Singapore), has supplied one of East Malaysia's first solar power plants, a one MW solar farm located i...  more

First Sola announced it has set yet another world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) PV research cell conversion efficiency, achieving 21.5% efficiency certified at the Newport Corporation’s Technology and Appli...  more

Motech Industries, Inc. (Motech), a Taiwan-based solar PV cell manufacturer, and Topcell Solar International Co., Ltd. (TSi), a PV company dedicated to manufacturing and developing high efficiency PV cells, held respective board m...  more

Vikram Solar, an internationally active manufacturer of PV modules and EPC solutions provider, is revealing its current expansion plans to reach 350 MW of module capacity. In addition to Vikram’s plans to expand ...  more

UNSW's solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before bein...  more