While our blog is designed for you, the homeowner, other online resources are geared for a different audience. One such website belongs to PV Tech, a media platform designed for manufacturers of solar cells, modules, and thin film. To satisfy your curiosity, and to save you the trouble, we browsed through their pages to give you an idea of what the solar manufacturers are reading. Here’s the general scoop.

Materials, materials, materials

It makes sense that those who produce the technology would want to be on the constant alert for material supply, capacity, and new product portfolios. PV Tech keeps manufacturers posted on polysilicon: who produces it, where, and how. In addition to this basic PV building block, there are product briefings on new products, such as thin film and organic solar cells.

Material facilities

A whole section is devoted to the facilities, these all-important locations where all the manufacturing happens. The locations that jump out first in their news items? Germany, Japan, China, Spain, and India.

News on PV modules

PV modules are where it’s all at, and as a consumer you may be interested in browsing through this section. Information here includes efficiency ratings for new modules and inverters, news on companies making large PV orders, and testing results.

Research and Development

When it comes to solar technology, there’s always something up in this department, and you don’t need to read a manufacturer’s site to know this.

Market Watch

It’s all about who’s funding who, or who gets the funding for what, and in the solar market, the dollars are in the billions. Definitely a good place for every consumer, not just the manufacturers, to stay on top of, whether it’s at this particular site or elsewhere.