Vincent Shaw

6 days ago | pv-magazine.com | Emiliano Bellini |Vincent Shaw

Chinese solar module manufacturer Longi has revealed it achieved a power conversion efficiency of 34.85% for a two-terminal tandem perovskite solar cell. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) certified the result, which represents a world record for this cell typology.

1 week ago | ess-news.com | Marija Maisch |Vincent Shaw

Chinese battery energy storage specialist Hithium presented its new ∞Cell 587Ah energy storage cell and the corresponding ∞Power 6.25MWh 2-hour storage system at the 13th Energy Storage International Conference and Expo (ESIE2025) in Beijing last week. The manufacturer also announced that the ∞Cell had begun global sampling in April 2025, with the ∞Power system slated for mass production in the second half of the year.

1 week ago | ess-news.com | Marija Maisch |Vincent Shaw |Carrie Hampel |Nadine Bourgeois

At the 13th Energy Storage International Conference and Expo (ESIE2025) on April 10, TrinaStorage, the energy storage arm of Trina Solar, unveiled its latest-generation Elementa 3 liquid-cooled energy storage system, drawing wide attention from industry attendees. The Elementa 3 system features high-performance 565 Ah battery cells and delivers a rated capacity of 6.017 MWh with a typical discharge duration of four hours.

1 week ago | pv-magazine-india.com | Vincent Shaw

Chinese PV module maker Longi has revealed that its proprietary hybrid interdigitated back contact (HIBC) crystalline silicon solar cell based on a full-size silicon wafer has achieved a world record power conversion efficiency of 27.81%. The result was confirmed by Germany’s Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH). The cell also achieved a short-circuit current of 5,698 mA, an open-circuit voltage of 744.9 mV, and a fill factor of 87.55%.

1 week ago | pv-magazine.com | Vincent Shaw

From ESS NewsChina’s Sungrow has introduced its latest innovation—the PowerStack 255CS, a liquid-cooled battery energy storage system (BESS) designed specifically for commercial and industrial (C&I) applications. Unveiled at the Global Renewable Energy Summit 2025 (GRES2025) in Hefei, China, the system targets longstanding deployment challenges in the C&I sector, offering a compact and highly scalable solution.