Two Companies Raise Photovoltaic EVA Film Prices by 6-10%, While the Top Three Companies Stay Put

On July 30, the Department of Electronic Information of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized a symposium for the PV industry, focusing on the three recently released mandatory national standards—*Safety Requirements for PV Modules*, *Nameplate Labeling Requirements for PV Modules*, and *Energy Efficiency Limits and Energy Efficiency Grades for Crystalline Silicon PV Modules and Inverters*—to conduct centralized Q&A, address industry concerns, and plan key next steps. The meeting invited PV manufacturing enterprises, testing organizations, standardization bodies, metrology institutions, and other entities to participate, and held in-depth exchanges on interpreting standard clauses, unifying testing methods, and metrological traceability requirements. Experts from the standard drafting group provided point-by-point responses and systematic explanations to the key and difficult issues of common concern to enterprises, helping them accurately grasp the core essence of the standards, eliminate misunderstandings, and ensure faithful implementation of the standards.

State-owned Electricity Generation Bangladesh has issued a tender for the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the 220MW Sonagazi solar project in Feni district, southeastern Bangladesh. The project was approved last December after receiving backing from the Islamic Development Bank. The selected developer will have 18 months to complete construction, with bids due by Sept. 15 and a bid security requirement of BDT 310 million or USD 2.5 million. IRENA data show Bangladesh’s solar capacity reached 1.146GW by the end of last year, up 300MW from the previous year.

Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy awarded 725MW of new solar park capacity on the second day of the country’s Clean Energy Procurement Auction. The electricity generated will supply the equivalent consumption of more than 800,000 Colombian households through long-term supply contracts. On the first day, the ministry awarded 270MW of solar tied to 100MW of battery storage at a closing price of COP 315.87/kWh. Awards across both days represent about 3% of Colombia’s regulated demand, with 15-year contracts and supply obligations scheduled to start in 2030. Details on the price, contracted daily energy, locations and companies for the second-day 725MW allocation have not yet been released.