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Significant Drop in PV Price Quotes Puts More Pressure onto Wafer Manufacturers

published 2014 年 04 月 03 日 18:11 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Recent wafer spot price reflected a downtrend. Price quotes for high-efficiency multi-si wafer dropped from US$1.04-1.05/piece in mid-March to US$1.02-1.04/piece lately. For normal-grade products, quotation also declined from US... more

Wafer Price Decreases Due to Season Pre-Load and Weaker Demand

published 2014 年 03 月 29 日 12:16 | editor | category Price Trend

Recent changes in spot market trends have led to substantial decline in PV products trading prices. Price quotes for polysilicon to modules dropped around 1%-3%, noted EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. Whether demand... more

Japan’s Lowered PV Feed-in Tariff May Cause ROI Decrease 3-5%

published 2014 年 03 月 24 日 18:28 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced it will lower PV Feed-in Tariff (FiT) in fiscal year 2014. For PV systems with capacity of 10kW and above, commercial PV FiT will be revised down from 36 yen... more

Policies and Incentives Boost Australia’s Large-Scale Power Plant Demand

published 2014 年 03 月 08 日 11:15 | editor | category Price Trend

The renewable energy market rapidly grows in Australia due to the recent policies and incentives. However, the economic recession and the decreased system price caused the Australian government to revise the subsidy rate downward.... more

Dark American Cloud Over Taiwan Solar Panels: Forbes

published 2014 年 03 月 04 日 14:40 | editor rheatsao | category News

Taiwan’s solar cell technology industry, the world’s second largest, faces possible U.S. government trade sanctions after selling components to Chinese producers that shipped finished modules onward to the United State... more

PV to Keep Up Demands in March; Short-term Price Surge but Decreased Volumes

published 2014 年 03 月 03 日 14:51 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

March 2014 spot price will be nearly the same as February, and some manufacturers will undergo incremental price increase, said EnergyTrend, a green energy subsidiary of TrendForce last week. PV volume will also be similar to Fe... more

Price Quotations of Upstream PV Products to Rise Despite Complicated Market Factors in March

published 2014 年 02 月 24 日 13:45 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Last week, there were two headlines for solar industry on both positive and negative sides – the positive one was that China officially announced its new PV system installation target of 14GW in 2014, which represented a s... more

ITC Files the Case, Taiwanese Manufacturers Need to React Carefully and Accurately

published 2014 年 02 月 15 日 0:20 | editor rheatsao | category Analysis

ITC today announced that Taiwanese and Chinese PV products exported to the U.S. have caused substantial damages to the U.S. PV industry. Henceforth, DOC will take over the following administrative processes and announce the anti-s... more

Wafer Manufacturers to Achieve Outstanding Sales Performance in February due to Brightening Prospect

published 2014 年 01 月 10 日 10:58 | editor carinaying | category Price Trend

EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, indicates that since high-efficiency wafer supply shortage remains and demand is still strong, both buyers and sellers have started to plan for February orders ahead of time. It&rsq... more

Cell Manufacturers May Revise Price Upward Due to Increased Raw Material Cost

published 2014 年 01 月 03 日 10:53 | editor carinaying | category Price Trend

EnergyTrend indicates that cell manufacturers may revise the price upward to correspond to the increased poly and multi-si wafer price. Recent targeted average price is US$0.4/watt. “After poly price slightly declined in 2Q... more

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