Display manufacturer BOE has commissioned its perovskite outdoor demonstration base at its 10.5-generation TFT-LCD production park in Hefei, Anhui Province.
The 200 kW demonstration facility will deploy BOE’s rigid, flexible, and tandem perovskite modules alongside cadmium telluride (CdTe) and crystalline silicon technologies, including back-contact (BC), TOPCon, and heterojunction (HJT) modules, for comparative outdoor validation.
The company plans to begin extreme-environment durability testing in H2 2026 by installing the modules at 3 sites representing different climatic conditions: Mohe in Heilongjiang for severe cold, Turpan in Xinjiang for extreme heat, and Yinchuan in Ningxia for high solar irradiation. The program is designed to evaluate module performance under full-scenario outdoor operating conditions.
In May, BOE signed an MoU with Corning Incorporated for collaboration on perovskite glass substrates (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Lithium-ion battery manufacturer Sunwoda has established a RMB 500 million investment fund through its wholly owned subsidiary Xin’neng Technology to support standalone energy storage projects in China.
Xin’neng Technology will contribute RMB 240 million, representing a 48% stake, while Zhejiang Xun’neng Technology will invest RMB 250 million, representing a 50% stake.
At least 70% of the fund will be invested, directly or indirectly, in standalone energy storage projects, with wind and solar projects also considered. The new vehicle follows another RMB 500 million energy storage fund established by Sunwoda with Tagen Group in March (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
PV equipment manufacturer Maxwell Technologies has delivered its first commercial perovskite-silicon HJT tandem cell production line to an undisclosed customer.
According to the company, the production line is designed for 210 mm half-cut, full-area perovskite-HJT tandem cells and incorporates upgrades in precision equipment control, manufacturing environment, and production stability to support process verification and future capacity ramp-up.
Maxwell said the delivery establishes China’s first commercial-scale production capability for perovskite-HJT tandem cell manufacturing.
Shanxi Province’s Energy Bureau has introduced a traffic-light zoning framework to manage distributed renewable energy grid connections.
Under the new rules, projects in red zones will be permitted only if they are fully self-consuming and equipped with independent energy storage. Yellow-zone projects are encouraged to maximize self-consumption and install storage when exporting surplus electricity, while green-zone projects will be allowed to connect to the grid in an orderly manner.
The province also encourages deployment of distributed energy storage demonstration projects at 10 kV and below.
For commercial and industrial (C&I) distributed PV projects that export surplus power to the grid, the annual self-consumption ratio must be at least 50%. Government agencies, schools, hospitals, and other public institutions are exempt from this requirement.
TaiyangNews 2024

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