Lunar New Year Holidays are coming and spot prices across the entire PV supply chain have maintained stably. However, most of PV manufacturers predict that both si wafer and PV cell will increase their prices after the Lunar New Y... more
For the whole January, orders for solar products across the supply chain has mostly been dealt due to the upcoming Lunar New Year, and EnergyTrend found that the spot prices did not, and will not, significantly fluctuate in the re... more
Continuing price hike for polysilicon in China during December significantly raised wafer's cost, found EnergyTrend. Mono-si wafer has been in a serious shortage of supply, so its price stayed peaked. Multi-si wafer price n... more
In contrast to the continuing price hike for polysilicon in China, downstream module prices on various markets have trended downward in December, putting a damper on the price level on the overall supply chain, including multi-si ... more
Midstream sectors began to have clear pricing as leading multi-Si wafer companies announced their latest price quotes. According to EnergyTrend’s observation, while the polysilicon market continued to witness rising prices, the mu... more
Tesla and Panasonic announced a partnership on PV cell and module production and they plan to build production lines in Buffalo, New York. Some sources specified that the production lines in Buffalo are actually referring to Sola... more
Tesla, the world’s leader in electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, will extend its partnership with Panasonic by co-investing around JPY 10 billion in building a PV cell and module fab in Buffalo, New York state. The co-inve... more
Prices across the PV supply chain have collapsed to new lows in the second half of 2016 due to plunging demand. Furthermore, quotes of PV cells and wafers are not expected to bottom out this September. The current market an... more
aleo Sunrise, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany-based solar manufacturer aleo that was acquired by Taiwan’s SAS, officially started production on “CELCO” PERC cells.
SAS started renovation and restructuring aleo’s German... more
PV market momentum in China continues to slow down, while PV demands in the U.S., Japan, and Europe are weak as it entering the latter half of the third quarter. The order volumes are estimated to rise only after demand from China... more
