IRA should incentivize steel solar frames, says report
A report from Origami Solar and Wood Mackenzie advises that if the U.S. solar industry switched from aluminum to recycled steel frames, it would no longer need to import aluminum frames from Asia.
Sunrise brief: U.S. median residential solar price is $2.80 per watt, payback period 8 years
Also on the rise: Turkish solar module manufacturer begins production in Texas. Construction starts at solar microgrid in Northern California Tribal community. And more.
Amphenol begins operations at solar junction box factory in Arizona
The company announced the first line of its Mesa manufacturing facility is operational.
Meyer Burger to shut down plant in Germany and pivot to the U.S.
Swiss solar panel maker Meyer Burger will seek shareholder approval for a rights issue of as much as $284 million to finance the completion of its U.S. manufacturing facilities in Colorado and Arizona.
Shoals to invest $80 million in Tennessee manufacturing expansion
The electrical balance of systems provider serving the solar industry will move its manufacturing and distribution center to a new, larger facility.
GameChange to expand U.S manufacturing of solar tracking to 35 GW
The tracker supplier reports that it will be able to deliver solar tracker systems that contain 70% domestic content with the potential to increase the percentage to over 85%.
Debunking solar myths: All panels come from China
Part One of Dan Shugar’s series on replacing fiction with facts about solar, when the proverbial Uncle Bob comes to dinner.
CubicPV halts U.S. solar silicon wafer factory plans
The company will instead focus on producing perovskite tandem modules.
Bipartisan Senators request increased tariffs on solar imports from China
In attempt to support U.S. manufacturing competition with lower-cost imported solar components, the Senators requested the president invoke Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to enforce tariffs.
Germany’s Nexwafe mulling U.S. wafer factory
German wafer manufacturer Nexwafe says it has set up a subsidiary in the United States to evaluate the potential to produce wafers in the country.
