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Meeting climate-neutral energy targets with photovoltaics will require a drastic cut in silver use. Scientists at Fraunhofer ISE have now produced silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells with total silver consumption of just 1.4 milligrams per watt peak.
Battery production at the new factory is scheduled to start in May 2025. It will create 700 new jobs. BMZ wants to use the plant to strengthen its position on the global market.
In the new production process, the individual powders are sintered, i.e. pressed together under high pressure. This is quick and scalable for industrial processes.
The solar industry is still waiting for Solar Package I. Several manufacturers have repeatedly called for resilience bonuses, i.e. additional remuneration for domestic components in the construction of solar power plants. Module manufacturer Meyer Burger is now drawing the consequences and announcing the closure of its Freiberg plant at the end of April.
Solar modules for integration into vehicles: Opes Solar Mobility is building a new factory for this purpose in Zwenkau, Saxony. The location was chosen carefully.
Otovo, a European marketplace for solar systems, and Meyer Burger have recently announced the immediate launch of a new partnership for building a more robust and sustainable energy infrastructure in Europe.
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Outlook 2024: Meyer Burger has built large cell and module factories in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. Company spokeswoman Annegret Schneider and Sales Manager Sven Stoffers analyse what European manufacturers need and how the market is developing.
With a production capacity of 3.5 gigawatts, the planned factory in the US will only reach a tenth of the capacity in Germany. It is a step to better serve the local market in North America - and to utilise the support of the US government.
Together with Meyer Burger, clean tech start-up LuxChemtech from Freiberg is laying the foundations for solar recycling on an industrial scale.
Plastic and fossil fuels are harmful to the environment. To ensure that at least their production is climate-neutral, Total Energies has built a large solar park with a storage unit in Texas.
Fronius has put its new production facility into operation. This increases production capacity from four to seven gigawatts per year. Further expansion is already planned.
From polysilicon to wafers and solar glass to module assembly: Heckert Solar, Wattkraft and Interfloat want to build an integrated value chain in Germany. In doing so, the companies are pursuing several goals at the same time.
On 1 August 2023, Trina Solar has manufactured the first 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells at its net-zero production park in Qinghai province. Production there is to be ramped up to five gigawatts.
Meyer Burger Technology AG announced recently that the company will open a high-performance solar cell manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
For the first time, glass manufacturer Schott has implemented a glass melting process that is continuous over several days and does not use natural gas. The company aims to be climate-neutral by 2030 and is pursuing these two approaches:
To meet the increased demand for electric heating rods and power controllers for solar electric heating, My-PV has moved into a new production building. The entire production facility is ergonomically equipped - and future expansion is also possible.
More than 20 million euros are being invested to meet the strong demand. The expansion will take place gradually until the beginning of 2025.
Energy to Market, EDF Renewables and the Speira aluminium mill took a look at one and a half years of storage operation at the Hamburg rolling mill. The results are impressive:
The European solar industry is making a comeback. Soon more modules, storage units and inverters will come from new factories. An initial overview of planned investments.
Manufacturer Elevenes has opened Europe's first industrial facility for the production of battery cells made from lithium iron phosphate, or LFP. The production facility in Subotica, Serbia, will manufacture prismatic LFP cells using 100 per cent green electricity.
To increase solar module production in Europe and to lessen dependence on the Asian market, Agora Solar is establishing a facility for in Slovakia.
Enphase has started production of microinverters in Europe. The devices will be manufactured in Timișoara, Romania, at a subsidiary of Flextronics International.
Meyer Burger wants to further expand its position as a European manufacturer of solar cells and solar modules. The premium brand is already available in many European markets. Production capacity in Germany was more than doubled last year, and further expansion is planned to grow to around 1.4 gigawatts in 2023.
Up to 300,000 heat pumps are to come off the production lines annually. Production is scheduled to start in May 2023. About one billion euros has been invested.
