Japan’s Solar Frontier has completed the construction of a 150-megawatt production plant located in Miyagi, its fourth manufacturing unit.
The new plant features upgrades to Solar Frontier’s existing CIS production lines using advanced technology developed at its Atsugi Research Center. It also serves as a model for Solar Frontier’s future production plants as the company looks to expand its global production footprint. Solar Frontier will use the upcoming ramp-up phase to test and verify its latest CIS line technology.
The introduction of the new plant comes as Solar Frontier works to bring its CIS technology to more customers around the world. Compared to crystalline silicon modules, CIS modules generate a higher energy yield–kilowatt-hours per kilowatt-peak–in real world conditions. The Tohoku Plant will build on the performance advantages of CIS with new product upgrades. This includes module conversion efficiencies of over 15% and adjustments to the voltage and current of its CIS thin-film modules, enabling more freedom in system design.