Chinese language panel maker Jetion Photo voltaic, a unit of China Nationwide Constructing Supplies (CNBM), has begun building of a 5 GW manufacturing unit to provide heterojunction (HJT) panels in Jiangyin, in China’s Jiangsu province. .
Jetion Photo voltaic is creating the power in partnership with German module producer Avancis. The primary part of building would require an funding of CNY 1.8 billion. It ought to be accomplished by April, with business operations scheduled to start in August.
“HJT expertise shouldn’t be new, with Sanyo after which Panasonic creating and producing high-efficiency expertise for many years,” Jetion Photo voltaic CTO Ewain Guo stated in August 2021, when the venture was first introduced. “Nevertheless, it stays a high-performance and high-cost product, which limits its mass market penetration. Given the historic potential of China’s PV business to aggressively scale back prices, we are able to solely wait and look.
Jetion Photo voltaic at present has a manufacturing capability of two.5 GW for PV modules and a couple of GW for photo voltaic cells. Final yr, it began working a brand new 1 GW mono PERC cell fab in Tongcheng, in China’s Anhui province.
CNBM additionally operates CIGS manufacturing services in 4 totally different places, together with one in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. The group is the primary of many firms to introduce large-scale CIGS manufacturing in China.
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