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Japanese Government Plans to Mandate PV Installations on New Homes

published 2021 年 10 月 04 日 9:30
In Japan, a draft proposal on green building requirements was recently approved at a government-sponsored panel meeting, according to reporting by news agencies based in the country and elsewhere. The proposal calls for a tightened energy efficiency standard that will be applicable to new residential buildings starting in 2025. ...  more

Uganda bets on floating PV

published 2021 年 09 月 30 日 17:18
Uganda Electricity Generation Company is seeking consultants to assess the country‘s potential to deploy floating PV power plants. The utility said that the selected consultants will need to conduct analytical studies on the prosp...  more

PV Industry Price Trend: Polysilicon and Wafer Prices Expected to Rise Continuously as High Cost and Production Restrictions Inhibit Mid and Downstream Operating Rate Relentlessly

published 2021 年 09 月 30 日 16:27
Polysilicon Polysilicon quotations had sustained a large fluctuation this week, with the overall market still under price negotiation. As the end of the month approaches, most businesses have started to negotiate for October orders, and the demand for next month is seemingly unabated according to the level of order enquiries. ...  more

Prosolia and Iberdrola to Invest EUR 850 Million in Five PV Projects Across Iberia

published 2021 年 09 月 29 日 9:30
Prosolia Energy and Iberdrola announced on September 22 that they have entered into an agreement to jointly invest EUR 850 million in setting up five PV projects in Spain and Portugal by 2025. Pedro Pestana Aguiar, an executive board member of Prosolia, told Reuters that four of the projects will be located in Spain and each have a generation capacity of 360MW. The fifth project will be located in Portugal and have a generation capacity of 1,140MW. Aguiar pointed out that Portugal will almost double its current PV generation capacity with the addition of that one project. ...  more

PV Industry Price Trend: Upstream Polysilicon Inflation Remains Unabated amidst Apparent Pressure in the Module Sector

published 2021 年 09 月 23 日 17:22
Polysilicon The polysilicon market saw a relatively sluggish level of transactions this week, and overall prices remained temporarily stable. Most polysilicon businesses are still in the delivery phase this week, and have yet to adjust the mainstream quotations, where mono polysilicon is maintained at roughly RMB 215/kg in mainstream quotation, while multi polysilicon is now at US$105/kg. ...  more

Japanese Government Plans to Mandate PV Installations on New Homes

published 2021 年 09 月 23 日 9:30
In Japan, a draft proposal on green building requirements was recently approved at a government-sponsored panel meeting, according to reporting by news agencies based in the country and elsewhere. The proposal calls for a tightened energy efficiency standard that will be applicable to new residential buildings starting in 2025. ...  more

India installed 521 MW rooftop PV in the second quarter

published 2021 年 09 月 22 日 17:31
India reached a cumulative installed rooftop solar capacity of 6.1 GW at the end of June 2021 with the addition of 521 MW rooftop PV in the second quarter (Q2) of the year. The Q2 2021 addition is a 53% increase compared to 341 MW...  more

Myanmar extends deadline for 1 GW PV tender

published 2021 年 09 月 17 日 17:53
Myanmar's Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) has announced that the bid submission date for the 1 GW PV tender it launched in May has been extended to October without any reason. The previous deadline had been set for Augus...  more

Qihe County of Shandong Province Commences DG PV Program and Strives to Reach GW Level in Two Years

published 2021 年 09 月 17 日 9:30
Qihe County, which is located in the northwestern part of China’s Shandong Province, formally initiated a major DG PV program on September 16, according to the reporting from the local news outlets. This is a multi-year program, and the county aims to have achieved the followings by 2024: (1) the installed DG PV generation capacity of the county reaching the GW level, (2) the PV electricity output of the county exceeding 1,000GWh, (3) DG PV systems comprising more than 75% of the county’s generation capacity based on new energy technologies, and (4) DG PV generation meeting more than 20% of the county’s energy consumption. ...  more