With almost 2.500 exhibiting companies from 57 countries and more than 100,000 visitors, Munich’s Intersolar was nothing less than a success, apart from this:
A poor sight obviously and even if a bin can overflow due to bad organization, how can someone justify the lack of separating bins…In a renewable exhibition? Very disappointing, especially when Germany has a super-efficient framework around waste separation & management.
Flying to Germany and visiting Intersolar is always a great opportunity to see old friends and meet new solar warriors with the similarities and differences between the European solar market and the Australian one, always coming up in discussions.
TOPCON Ntype modules were everywhere. (Same with storage and EV chargers) as more cost-effective and efficient than the “old” PERC offering advantages such as lower electricity production costs.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute outlined cost-effective strategies to accelerate the industrial production of TOPCon solar products by involving relatively straightforward adaptations of existing manufacturing processes used for PERC cells, requiring the addition of two process steps: creating an oxide layer and applying inherent/doped polysilicon.
In summary, 2023 marks a (another) pivotal year for the solar module industry, with advancements in n-type technology and TOPCon promising greater efficiency, capacity, and cost-effectiveness, alongside efforts to streamline production processes for an even more widespread adoption.
