Swiss PV manufacturer Meyer Burger has decided to discontinue solar module production in March in Freiberg, Germany, in a bid to stop sustained losses in Europe. . SPI's panel-manufacturing plant in California has suddenly ceased operation and its cell-production site in South Carolina never got off the ground. Solar4America initiatives to produce solar technology in California and South Carolina have precipitously shut down, the site in the latter state. . A North American manufacturer is pressing pause on its plans to build out a solar cell manufacturing facility in Minnesota, opting instead to wait for more clarity from the incoming Trump Administration on the tax credits that made the project viable. Heliene CEO Martin Pochtaruk has confirmed to. . Panasonic, once a household name in the solar panel and energy storage space, has officially exited the solar and battery storage market after decades of involvement. While this may come as no surprise to those closely following the industry, the move carries major implications for homeowners. . The in-vestment is an important step in meeting Meyer Burger's commitments to produce modules in close proximity to end-customers, source materials from regional suppliers, and improve its overall sustaina-bility by reducing transportation emissions and op-timizing the carbon footprint of the. . Meyer Burger, a Switzerland-based heterojunction cell and panel manufacturer, says it will stop making PV modules in Germany, but it will continue to produce solar cells in the country to support its panel production operations in the United States. Switzerland's Meyer Burger Technology has. . Looking back on 2025, three companies made headlines for their efforts, and failures, to produce polysilicon in the US. Now, with supply constraints and restrictive legislation looming in 2026 and beyond, polysilicon is emerging as a real choke point for US solar supply. New solar supply chains are. .
