Government incentives help focus efforts on power plant development Chinese solar panel makers are looking to invest in solar power farms to boost earnings after a drop in panel prices due to oversupply. Hit hard by trade disputes as ...
Tags: Solar Panel, Energy
Spot market prices for polysilicon have risen to US$20/kg currently and some China-based makers, in view of strong demand in the China market, plan to further hike quotes by 10% to US$22/kg after the Lunar New Year (January 31), according ...
Tags: China polysilicon, Strong demand
Taiwan-based makers plan to hike quotes for polycrystalline silicon solar cells with energy conversion rates over 17.4% to US$0.41-0.45/W in February 2014 to reflect increases in the cost of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers, ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Module
Quotes for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer have risen from US$1 in December 2013 to US$1.05 currently, and are expected to rise to US$1.08 in February and further to US$1.10 in March, according to chairman Guo Yan-ting of ...
Tags: Solar-Grade, Silicon Wafers
Taiwan-based makers have hiked quotes for high energy conversion rate solar-grade wafers to about US$1 per wafer due to tight supplies, according to industry sources. Prices for a high-efficiency solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, Lighting, Solar-grade
The Japan and the US markets directly or indirectly accounted for 50% and 30% of total orders received by Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers in 2013, according to industry sources. The total capacity of PV systems ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Lights, Lighting, Electrical, Electronics
PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has reported consolidated revenues of NT$583 million (US$19.4 million) for December, hitting a record for the fourth consecutive month with growth of 13.4% on month and 211.03% on year. The ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Oxford Photovoltaics, a commercial offshoot of the University of Oxford, has developed colorful and transparent glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy. This semi-transparent dyed glass that acts as a solar panel ...
Tags: glass, decoration
Notebook and server ODM Inventec on December 24 decided to add an investment of NT$470 million (US$15.7 million) in Inventec Energy, a Taiwan-based PV module maker, raising its stake ratio from 26% currently to 47.78% and making it a ...
Tags: Notebook, server ODM Inventec
Prices for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers have risen to US$0.94/wafer due to tight supply, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has cited Taiwan-based maker Gigastorage as indicating. Gigastorage has received orders ...
Tags: Solar-Grade Silicon, Energy
The average spot market quote for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer has risen slightly by 1.18% to US$0.86/W, while that for high-efficiency models by 1.09% to US$0.926/W, according to Taiwan-based maker Green Energy Technology ...
Tags: Spot Prices, Silicon Wafers
Global PV production capacity is not expected to significantly increase in the near future and therefore there will not be any large PV capital expenditure before 2015, according to senior marketing manager Wesley Skinner for Applied ...
Tags: PV Capital, Lighting
China-based PV module makers have asked Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers to decrease prices to the same level offered by China-based makers, but the Taiwan makers do not plan to accept mainly because the cost of silver ...
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The European Union (EU) has reached a consensus with the China government to set an annual quota of 7GWp on PV modules imported from China, but the quota will reportedly also include solar cells, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
Tags: Soar Cells, PV modules
The European Union (EU) has not yet decided on whether to impose anti-dumping tariff rates on solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers and cells imported from China, and if the EU does not impose the tariff, Taiwan-based solar cell makers ...
Tags: Solar Wafers, Solar Cells, PV Modules