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Where will China's Huaneng Group build a 10 GW solar panel factory?

China Huaneng Group has revealed plans to build a 10 GW solar panel factory in Beihai, Guangxi province. The state-owned company said it will invest CNY 5 billion ($749.8 million) in the new manufacturing facility. Akcome said it will install more heterojunction module manufacturing lines at its factory in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province.

Is solar photovoltaics ready to power a sustainable future?

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How has China halved the emissions intensity of solar PV Manufacturing?

Continuous innovation led by China has halved the emissions intensity of solar PV manufacturing since 2011. This is the result of more efficient use of materials and energy – and greater low-carbon electricity production.

Is polysilicon a bottleneck for solar PV?

Global capacity for manufacturing wafers and cells, which are key solar PV elements, and for assembling them into solar panels (also known as modules), exceeded demand by at least 100% at the end of 2021. By contrast, production of polysilicon, the key material for solar PV, is currently a bottleneck in an otherwise oversupplied supply chain.

Is solar PV a strategic renewable technology?

This report clearly points out that solar PV is one of the strategic renewable technologies needed to realise the global energy transformation in line with the Paris climate goals. The technology is available now, could be deployed quickly at a large scale and is cost-competitive.

Will solar PV be 1.5°C compatible?

Consequently, they miss the large mitigation potential of solar PV and describe the 1.5°C-compatible scenarios that rely on a technology mix that will most likely be more expensive and over-reliant on far less mature technologies.