The market, applications and photovoltaic technologies are constantly evolving, at all levels of the value chain. The race is global and focused on achieving better performance in terms of conversion efficiency, loss reduction, increased throughput, economic competitiveness. All innovations that save on the final cost of the energy produced are explored and pushed to their maximum.
For the assembly stage of photovoltaic panels (also called modules), several trends focus the attention of the actors. The market is currently making several shifts. One trend is to move towards high-efficiency cells like heterojunction technology.
Photovoltaic panels also incorporate cells of larger formats, with an increase in surface area that induces an increase in power, cut into half-cells, thirds of cells, 1/6th of cells that reduce electrical losses in production.
These developments, which are accompanied by ever higher rates of processing, require significant and constant innovation in assembly processes and equipment, particularly for interconnection.
