Japanese electronics giant, Toshiba, is continuing to improve the performance of its perovskite solar cell technology.

Astronergy says it plans to build one of the world’s largest announced offshore PV projects, while Longi says it is expanding its cell capacity in Leshan, Sichuan province.

Chinese battery industry heavyweight Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) announced a new electric vehicle battery that reportedly enables long-range driving on a fast, ten-minute charge. It expects mass production to begin by the end of this year, and vehicles equipped with the battery to be available in the first quarter of 2024.

A spokesperson from the Japanese plastics maker told pv magazine that production is currently being carried out at a small facility in the laboratory, and that the location of a full-scale production facility is currently under consideration.

China deployed 18.74 GW of new PV systems in July alone and may now cross the 500 GW threshold by the end of this month.

Norway’s NorSun, a monocrystalline silicon wafer supplier and ingot manufacturer, has raised NOK 90 million ($8.5 million) to support its projects.

JinkoSolar has reported a net profit of CNY 3.8 billion ($526.6 million) for the first half of 2023, while Maxeon has revealed plans to open a 3 GW TopCON cell and module factory in the United States.

US-based researchers have developed RoboMapper, an automated platform to accelerate the discovery of wide-bandgap metal halide perovskite alloys for next-generation solar cells.

Prefabricated floating solar PV provider Sunlit Sea, based in Norway, has provided its floaters for a 60 kW floating array installed at a waterpark in Germany.

Airtouch Solar Group has launched a cleaning solution for utility-scale solar PV plants to provide autonomous, water-free panel surface cleaning. The 4-meter cleaning unit weighs less than 40 kg and is commonly utilized in arid and dusty locations.