L R AS Published on Sunday 3 October 2021 - n° 376 - Categories:capacity increase/decrease
In short production: Heckert in Germany, Ubiquity in the USA, JinkoSolar in Vietnam, Premier Energies in India
Production highlights: Heckert in Germany, Ubiquity in the USA, JinkoSolar in Vietnam, Premier Energies in India
Heckert Solar opens a 400 MW module production plant in Thuringia
(Germany). It is more modern than the 400 MW in Chemnitz (East Germany)
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Canada's Ubiquity Solar will build a cell manufacturing plant in upstate New York with an initial production line of 350 MWp. The plant will be fully operational by the end of 2022.
https://www.pv-tech.org/ubiquity-solar-to-build-350mwp-cell-manufacturing-plant-in-new-york/
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JinkoSolar is investing $500 million to set up a monocrystalline ingot and wafer plant in Vietnam, which will supply its cell and panel plants in the US and Malaysia. The plant is expected to have a production capacity of 7 GW, and is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2022.
Opened in 2018, JinkoSolar's Jacksonville (US) plant is focused on manufacturing high-efficiency 60- and 72-cell monocrystalline PERC panels.
https://www.pv-tech.org/jinkosolar-setting-up-7gw-ingot-and-wafer-plant-in-vietnam/
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India's Premier Energies has secured $27m to fund its investment in cell and panel manufacturing. This will enable it to add 2 GW of additional capacity.
The funding boost comes two months after Premier Energies opened a 1.5GW integrated PV manufacturing plant in Hyderabad, tripling its production capacity.
