Belgian solar manufacturer Belinus has selected Belgium and Georgia to build a 5GW solar PV module manufacturing facility, which will be operational by the end of 2025. The construction will be carried out in two phases. The first phase will focus on the construction of a 500MW tunnel oxide passivation contact production line, and the second phase will introduce more than 1GW of serial back-contact solar cell technology.

We are already in active negotiations with local government officials to start production by the end of the first quarter of 2024, Belinus chairman Francis Rome said. With the new facility, the company expects to increase its supply chain in Europe and target the US market. The Belgian solar PV manufacturer currently has an annual production capacity of 2.2GW.

With Belinus' annual tandem and TOPCon technology manufacturing capacity of 5GW, it will move closer to the European Commission's target of 30GW European manufacturing capacity across the value chain by 2025.

Solar manufacturing projects have picked up in Europe since the EC released its Green Deal industrial plan in early February, with Exiom and Iberdrola teaming up to bring a 500MW TOPCon facility in Spain later in 2023 and French start-up Carbon planning to build a 5GW Romania has been chosen to build a 10GW solar module factory at the cell and module production facilities of French and German manufacturer AE Solar with 3.5GW respectively.Editor/XingWentao