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Canadian Solar, Sol Systems Partner to Scale U.S. Module Manufacturing

Canadian Solar and Sol Systems have partnered on scaling new solar module production and procurement in the U.S., with Canadian Solar set to supply...

GameChange Solar Announces Expansion of U.S. Domestic Manufacturing Capacity 

GameChange Solar has announced its expansion to 35 GW of annual U.S. domestic manufacturing capacity for certain components, from 24 GW last year.  The company...

Kinematics Opens New Facility, Expanding Solar Tracking Capacity

Kinematics announced its 270,000 sq. ft manufacturing facility in Jiangsu, China, saying it can double the company’s capacity to support up to 33 GW...

NexWafe Eyes Expanding Solar Wafer Production to U.S.

NexWafe has established a U.S. subsidiary to evaluate the development of solar wafer production, with an initial target volume of 6 GW, in the...

PVH Reduces Installation Time by 40 Percent with In-House Pre-Assembly

PVHardware (PVH) has launched an in-house pre-assembly process across production centers that the company says diminishes the number of components shipped to installation sites...

First Solar Inaugurates New Manufacturing Plant

First Solar has opened a new vertically integrated solar manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu, India.  The facility has an expected annual capacity of 3.3 GW...

Waaree to Establish First U.S. Manufacturing Facility

Waaree Energies has announced plans to establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility, in the Houston area.  Located in Brookshire, the facility will have an initial...

First Solar Enters Tax Credit Transfer Agreements With Fiserv

First Solar has entered into two separate tax credit transfer agreements to sell $500M and up to $200M of 2023 Inflation Reduction Act Advanced...

OCIM to Supply CubicPV with Silicon Under Long-Term Agreement

CubicPV and OCI Holdings subsidiary OCIM have signed a long-term supply agreement for OCIM to supply Cubic with low-carbon, U.S.-compliant silicon.  The eight-year contract, valued...

IRS Proposes Guidance for Solar Manufacturing Production Credit

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have issued proposed regulations to provide guidance for the advanced manufacturing production credit established by...

Heliene Investing in Minnesota PV Module Assembly Line Expansion

Heliene has invested an additional $10 million to expand an original manufacturing and assembly line at its Mountain Iron, Minn., facility.  Minnesota Line One, first...

Priefert Steel Fabricating Nevados Solar Trackers in Texas

Priefert Steel, billing itself as “America’s #1 Name in Ranch & Rodeo,” has begun manufacturing Nevados’ solar mounting and tracking equipment at the company’s...

GAF Energy Completes Construction of Second Manufacturing Facility

GAF Energy has completed the construction of the company's manufacturing facility in Georgetown, Texas. Full operation is planned for the end of the year, when...

Canadian Solar Establishes Wafer Production Facility for Indiana Factory Use

Canadian Solar says it is establishing a 5 GW solar PV wafer production facility in Chonburi, Thailand. The solar photovoltaic N-type wafer manufacturing plant is...

Wood Mackenzie: China Will Continue to Dominate Solar Manufacturing Sector

According to a new report from Wood Mackenzie, China will hold more than 80% of the world’s solar polysilicon, wafer, cell and module manufacturing...

Canadian Solar to Build Cell Production Facility in Indiana

Canadian Solar Inc. says it is establishing a 5 GW solar cell production facility at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, Ind. Canadian Solar...

Trina Solar Initiates Mass Production of n-type Cells and Modules

Trina Solar has produced the first Vertex N 610W module and n-type i-TOPCon cell at its plant in Huai'an, China, marking the start of...

Qcells Georgia Solar Facility Now at 5.1 GW of Manufacturing Capacity

Qcells has completed its Dalton, Ga., factory expansion, adding 2 GW of solar manufacturing capacity and bringing the factory’s output to more than 5.1...

First Solar Breaks Ground on $1.1 Billion Louisiana Facility

First Solar Inc. has broken ground on a previously announced manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish, La. – its fifth fully vertically integrated factory in...

OMCO Solar Expands with Sixth U.S. Manufacturing Plant

OMCO Solar, a factory-direct manufacturer of solar trackers and fixed-tilt solutions, is opening a new manufacturing facility in Alabama, its second in the state...

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