Impacted by the surprising initial verdict on unfair subsidies for Chinese solar panels announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), PV manufacturers in both China and Taiwan are now on their toes anticipating the prelimina... more
Price Trend
US to Impose High Tariffs on Chinese PV Products, Taiwanese Manufacturers May Benefit |
| published: 2014-06-06 9:13 |
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced to impose countervailing duties (CVD) on certain Chinese PV cells and modules, hitting Trina Solar with rate of 18.56%, Wuxi Suntech with 35.21% and all others with 26.89%. EnergyTrend for... more
PV Manufacturers Focus on Strategy Deployment as Downstream Market Demand Continues to Increase |
| published: 2014-05-30 18:16 |
Demand in the China’s Distributed PV market continues to increase, which caused manufacturers to come up with solutions in response to the trend. From the 8th SNEC Exhibition, which ended last week, we can see that PV service inte... more
Stronger Demand to Mono-si Drives Capacity Expansions |
| published: 2014-05-28 14:56 |
High-performance products stand an important position at SNEC 2014. Adding the fact that cell manufacturers have started to implement high-efficiency production processes, mono-si wafer demand therefore become stronger. Ene... more
Stronger Market Demand May Sustain PV Silicon Wafer’s Prices in 2Q |
| published: 2014-05-15 18:00 |
Market demands to PV silicon wafers may remain stable as many manufacturers have reported growing monthly revenues. Meanwhile, demands also increased because of the postponement of US DoC’s initial verdict for anti-dumping d... more
Wacker Benefits From EU-China Polysilicon Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Issues |
| published: 2014-05-08 17:23 |
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced on April 30, 2014, that they will impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy taxes on European solar-grade polysilicon imports. Since China has signed a price agreement with Germany-based Wacke... more
Silicon Thin-Film Market Share to Fall in the Short Run with DuPont Thin-Film Production Shutdown |
| published: 2014-05-02 18:57 |
DuPont announced the termination of their silicon thin-film operations by the end of 2014 with gradual shut down the silicon thin-film production lines at their subsidiary company. Silicon thin-film market share is likely to keep ... more
Slow Stock Clearance Rate Impacts PV Price Trend |
| published: 2014-04-25 18:11 |
PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhi... more
PV Mono-Si Cell Demand May Increase Due to Bridged Price Gaps |
| published: 2014-04-17 17:35 |
Impacted by recent market demand changes and narrowing price gaps, mono-si cell demand may increase in 2Q14, analyzed EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. In regards to spot market, there is limited room for further pri... more
Changes Within PV Market Leads to Lowered Prices in 2Q14 |
| published: 2014-04-10 16:16 |
Recent changes in the PV market have led to China’s waning demands at the end of March 2014, while further observations are required for orders in April this year. These have led to lowered price quotes for relevant product... more
