[SMM PV News] First Release in Ukraine | Suntech Boosts Resilience Upgrade of European Energy System with Integrated Energy Storage Solutions

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.

According to pv-tech.org, the relevant plan has been announced, and the facility is described as the first end-to-end solar PV critical materials recycling and regeneration facility in the US. We Recycle Solar, a solar PV recycling specialist headquartered in Arizona, plans to launch the plant near Dallas, Texas, in Q3 2027. The company said the commercial-scale facility will recover 96% of the silver, copper, silicon, aluminum, and glass from decommissioned solar panels, and will process these materials for resale in new products manufactured in the US. We Recycle Solar said this will be the first operational project to complete all recycling and processing steps domestically in the US, rather than shipping materials to plants outside China for further recycling.