Tag: supply chain
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New factory in Arizona advances solar supply chain domestication
Amphenol Industrial Operations has brought its new new solar product factory online in Mesa, Arizona. As of January, Amphenol began manufacturing and shipping U.S.-made solar junction boxes to solar manufacturers and developers across the country on a daily basis. Amphenol’s Mesa solar product factory can accommodate a dozen state-of-the-art manufacturing lines, each with a capacity……
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DOE offers $18 million to fund for Flexible Innovative Transformer Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced an $18 million funding opportunity for Flexible Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT). Through this funding opportunity announcement, DOE will select up to nine awardees that are able to research, develop and demonstrate advanced transformers across a range of distribution to transmission scale applications, improving grid reliability and easing transformer……
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Report: China to retain 80% of global solar manufacturing capacity until 2026
Despite local manufacturing policies in overseas markets, China’s expansion will dominate the global solar supply chain for the next few years. After investing more than $130 billion USD into the solar industry in 2023, China will hold more than 80% of the world’s polysilicon, wafer, cell and module manufacturing capacity from 2023 to 2026, according……
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Nextracker opens new dedicated manufacturing facility in Las Vegas
Nextracker has just unveiled a new dedicated manufacturing facility in Las Vegas along with Unimacts, which will own and operate the facility. The new facility will produce critical steel components exclusively for Nextracker used in ground-mount solar power generation plants to serve projects in Nevada and southwestern states. This is Nextracker’s sixth public dedication of……
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EDF Renewables places multi-year order for up to 7 GW of Canadian Solar modules
Canadian Solar Inc. and EDF Renewables North America have signed a multi-year module supply agreement. According to the deal, Canadian Solar will deliver up to 7 GW of high efficiency N-type TOPCon solar modules to be produced at the manufacturer’s new factory in Mesquite, Texas. Canadian Solar will supply its latest high efficiency N-Type TOPCon (Tunnel Oxide……