Tag: sustainability
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Kinematics opens new facility in China to double manufacturing capacity
Intelligent motion control experts Kinematics has unveiled a new 270,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China. The state-of-the-art facility was brought online in only five months, from start to 100% production capacity. The manufacturing facility doubles the company’s capacity and ensures its ability to annually support up to 33 GW of new solar tracking 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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‘Greener’ solar wafer production coming to the United States
NexWafe is a solar tech company we’ve had our eye on. The German company promotes the “greener” production of solar PV wafers via its EpiNex manufacturing solution that simplifies polysilicon production and reduces energy use. “This results in drastically lowered production costs for n-type monocrystalline wafers used for the majority of high-performing solar modules,” we’ve……
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Qcells partners with SOLARCYCLE to recycle its solar panels in the United States
The U.S. solar panel recycling industry is steadily coming into focus, led in a big way by SOLARCYCLE. Founded in 2022, SOLARCYCLE currently operates facilities in Odessa, Texas, and Mesa, Arizona, and has inked long-term partnerships with more than 40 of the nation’s largest solar energy companies. The latest? Qcells. Outside of First Solar, which……
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Mind the gap: Building the solar workforce
The solar industry was supercharged by the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which not only supports deployment of solar PV through the extension of tax credits, but also creates incentives for U.S.-based manufacturing. The flip side of all this good news is that the industry now faces a substantial shortage of skilled labor. This includes……