Germany is one of the leading countries in promoting carbon reduction. In the second half of her term, Merkel had largely eliminated reliance on coal-fired power generation. Coupled with its nuclear abolition policy after Japan’s 311 incident, energy is highly dependent on natural gas. Now the Russian-Ukrainian war has put the supply of natural gas into crisis, so Germany has returned to call on these obsolete coal-fired power plants, hoping to restart them as a delaying tactic, but restarting is not as simple as flipping a switch. ...  more

Silicon China, a branch of China Nonferrous Metal Industry Association, released its latest report on the price trends of polysilicon materials used in the manufacturing of PV products on August 17. This update pertains to prices in China during this week (i.e., the week of August 15). ...  more

Shuangliang Eco-Energy Systems announced on August 8 that it has completed an A share private placement. The proceeds from this round of fundraising came to RMB 3.488 billion and will be mainly used to grow the company’s PV business. This announcement was first picked up by other Chinese renewable energy news outlets. ...  more

Sichuan Government, amidst the consecutive days of high temperature, announced that all businesses are to suspend production for six days until midnight on August 20th in order to ensure grid safety by placing priority on public power consumption. As the market worries that such implementation may affect Taiwanese suppliers, Foxconn responded that the company has not received any major impact, while Quanta and Wistron responded with “no impact”. ...  more

Companies that are involved in the lithium battery supply chain have been expanding their presence in the solid-state battery segment in the recent years. Among them, major Chinese lithium supplier Ganfeng Lithium has just launched a major project to develop solid-state batteries and scale up production for the related products. ...  more

The government of Zhuhai, which is a major city in the China’s Guangdong Province, formally released its energy development strategy under the 14th Five-Year Plan on July 26. According to the strategy, the city’s generation capacity will increase by 7,700MW to reach 13,890MW by 2025. ...  more

aifian, under financial technology startup Adenovo, announced today that the subsidiary will be joining hands with Sunnyfounder to contribute to net zero emission by encouraging bourgeoisie procurement of solar panels with an approximate price of NT$20K per panel and becoming owners of national power plants, thus elevating the ratio of green power generation for Taiwan. ...  more

On August 5, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) posted a notice on its website detailing the performance of the domestic industrial silicon (metallic silicon) industry in the first half of 2022. Highlights are as follows: ...  more