Solar Frontier and Triumph sign MoU for feasibility study into developing CIS-based building-integrated photovoltaics for China
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China National Building Material Group subsidiary Triumph Science and Technology Group (a multi-functional platform for the management, industrialization, financing, investment and acquisition of high-end technology) for a joint feasibility study.
Together with Solar Frontier’s parent company Idemitsu Kosan, Triumph Science and Technology Group and Solar Frontier will look into developing building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) using CIS thin-film technology, with the aim of expanding photovoltaic power generation in China.
Developments from the feasibility study will be announced depending on the results of the joint initiative.
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Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, in a potential blow to the likes of HP, Dell and Microsoft.
The move is part of a broader campaign to increase China’s reliance on home-made technologies, and is likely to fuel concerns of “decoupling”, with supply chains between the US and China being severed.
Analysts at China Securities, a broker, estimate that 20m to 30m pieces of hardware will need to be swapped out as a result of the Chinese directive, with large-scale replacement beginning next year. They added that the substitutions would take place at a pace of 30 per cent in 2020, 50 per cent in 2021 and 20 per cent the year after, earning the policy the nickname “3-5-2”.
The analysts noted that the order had come from the Chinese Communist party’s Central Office earlier this year.
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