SPI Vitality says it would construct a brand new heterojunction photo voltaic cell manufacturing facility in the USA. Plans to fabricate it within the nation now embody modules, wafers and cells.
From pv journal USA
Solar4America, an entirely owned subsidiary of SPI Vitality, plans to start manufacturing N-type heterojunction (HJT) photo voltaic cells in the USA.
This follows the corporate’s announcement in January that it’ll enhance photo voltaic module manufacturing by 2.4 GW at its manufacturing facility in Sacramento, California. Whereas the US Inflation Discount Act is at present encouraging many module producers to start out manufacturing in the USA, cell and wafer manufacturing has but to ramp up.
“The manufacturing of HJT photo voltaic cells is in keeping with our dedication to offer cutting-edge renewable vitality know-how whereas lowering carbon footprints around the globe,” stated Denton Peng, chairman and CEO of SPI Vitality.
HJT makes use of N-type monocrystalline silicon as a substrate, depositing silicon-based skinny movies with distinctive traits and clear conductive movies on the back and front surfaces. By combining the advantages of crystalline silicon and amorphous silicon thin-film applied sciences, the corporate experiences that HJT know-how presents glorious photograph absorption, passivation results in addition to distinctive effectivity and efficiency. The principle benefits of HJT photo voltaic cells embody improved conversion effectivity, higher vitality yield, lowered decay fee, improved weak gentle efficiency, and it may be tailored to thinner wafers.
Solar4America plans to start manufacturing HJT photo voltaic cells in the USA by the tip of 2024. This announcement provides to the corporate’s manufacturing plans, which embody not solely cell but additionally wafer manufacturing.
Final yr, SPI Vitality registered its US photo voltaic wafer manufacturing enterprise, SEM Wafertech, for the manufacturing of wafers beginning this yr with an preliminary capability of 1.5 GW, with plans to broaden manufacturing capability to three GW by 2024. On the identical time, SPI Vitality employed Franz Feuerherdt as vp of gross sales and advertising to steer the Solar4America module manufacturing enterprise. Feuerherdt joins Solar4America from Mission Photo voltaic Vitality, and beforehand held roles at Flex and SolarWorld.
Shaped in 2006, SPI Vitality is predicated in McClellan Park, California. It went public in January 2016 and its EV subsidiary, Phoenix Motorcars, went public in January 2022, with firms buying and selling on the Nasdaq.
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