The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) announced on June 17th the withdrawal of FIT certifications for 144 solar plant facilities with capacities totaling 290MW. While there are 288 approved PV project... more
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SolarCity Completes Supply Chain Strategy with Silevo Acquisition |
| published: 2014-06-26 20:13 |
SolarCity recently acquired Silevo, a maker of high-efficiency solar modules. SolarCity has also merged with Zep Solar to gain access to innovative module installment technology and will pair up with Paramount Solar and Common a... more
Taiwanese Manufacturers Tread Carefully When Expanding PV Module Capacity |
| published: 2014-06-20 9:44 |
Recently, Taiwanese cell manufacturers’ capacity utilization has dropped because of the countervailing duty (CVD) and anti-dumping duty (AD) issues. However, it is rumored that some makers plan to expand their module capacit... more
Utilization Rates to Drop by the End of June, Long-Term Demand may Increase After Anti-Dumping Preliminary Verdict Announcements |
| published: 2014-06-13 11:53 |
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
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
