Over the last few weeks, SolarWorld Americas has ramped production of a new 72-cell PV module line at its fully automated cell and module facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, as revealed in a recent visit by pv magazine staff. The line has an annual capacity of 150 MW, and combined with existing 60-cell lines the factory now has the capacity to produce 550 MW of PV modules annually. This makes SolarWorld's Oregon facility the largest crystalline silicon PV module factory in the Western Hemisphere, and including German production SolarWorld has reached 1.5 GW cell and module capacity globally. This also places the Hillsboro plant not far behind First Solar's 640 MW of thin-film module capacity in Ohio. SolarWorld notes that it has space to add another 100 MW of production in Oregon module facility. SolarWorld says that it has seen increased demand for 72-cell modules from its installers for commercial- and utility-scale ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...
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