[SMM PV News] We Recycle Solar to Build First End-to-End Solar Material Recycling Facility in Texas

Recently, driven by rising prices of crude oil, ethylene, and vinyl acetate, EVA production costs have increased further, and the market still holds expectations for continued EVA price increases. This week, film manufacturers and module manufacturers began the second round of price negotiations. It is expected that film prices are likely to rise in this round, but the specific increase will still depend on subsequent negotiations and actual implementation.

According to Inner Mongolia Power Group, on September 9, the cumulative settled electricity volume of new energy in the Inner Mongolia Power Multilateral Trading Market reached 509.58 billion kWh, surpassing 500 billion kWh and leading all provincial-level markets nationwide. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Inner Mongolia Power Group built a robust power grid with a "four horizontal and six vertical" structure, featuring 500 kV as the backbone and 220 kV for distribution. Since the beginning of this year, a number of landmark and supporting major grid projects, including the Houhe Second Line, have been completed successively, adding 2.07 million kW of new energy accommodation capacity for areas such as Bayannur and Ordos. The construction of ultra-high-voltage and supporting projects for the desert-Gobi-wasteland large bases has been accelerated. The Inner Mongolia Power Group-managed section of the Dalad–Mengxi 1000 kV AC transmission and transformation project officially commenced, solidifying the energy foundation for large-scale, high-proportion new energy transmission. To date, the installed new energy capacity of the Inner Mongolia power grid has surpassed 100 million kW, accounting for 57.7% of the region's total installed capacity.

Recently, the first batch of Suntech's SunStorage PRO STE-1ML-500P integrated liquid-cooled energy storage systems was successfully shipped to Ukraine, officially marking the product's application deployment in the Ukrainian market. This not only represents Suntech's first breakthrough in the Ukrainian energy storage market, but also further extends the company's business footprint in the European energy storage market. Addressing Europe's growing demand for energy resilience and green transition, Suntech continues to deepen its PV+ESS integration strategy, leveraging integrated ESS products as a vehicle to combine multi-energy coordination with localized service capabilities, and delivering systematic energy solutions that bring more flexible, secure, and efficient energy options to the European market.