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
According to EnergyTrend, demand for PV self-consumption continues to increase in Europe due to decreased feed in tariffs and increased electricity price and surcharge fees for grid-connection. Moreover, the installation area of roof-top ...
Tags: PV Makers, Monocrystalline Market
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 ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Module
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
The European Union (EU) and the China government have reached a consensus about minimum prices and an annual quota to be set on PV modules imported from China to resolve anti-dumping disputes, and this is expected to benefit Taiwan-based ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Settlement
While the European Union (EU) and China are still in negotiations toward settlement of the dumping of China-produced PV modules, Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers hope that the EU imposes higher anti-dumping tariff rates ...
Tags: China, EU, PV Modules, Solar Cell
The main Taiwan-based solar cell makers saw capacity utilization rise to 80-100% in the second quarter of 2013 mainly due to strong demand in Japan, according to industry sources. In Japan, Japan-based Sharp and Kyocera have respective ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Solar Energy
Since the beginning of the second quarter, prices of solar wafers and cells in Taiwan have been increasing due to expectations that Europe may levy anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on China-based peers. Currently, prices of solar cells ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Energy
Taiwan-based solar conductive paste maker Giga Solar has reported front silver conductive paste shipments in the first quarter reached 2.4 tons. Including shipments of back silver conductive paste, silver conductive paste sales have ...
Tags: Giga Solar, Silver Paste Shipments
Solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on May 7 announced a merger with Sino Solar, its joint venture which makes crystalline silicon solar cells, through the acquisition of a 58.12% stake at NT$7.05 per share for NT$810 ...
Tags: SAS, Sino Solar, Lighting
The merger of Taiwan-based solar cell makers Neo Solar Power (NSP) and DelSolar, a solar subsidiary of Delta Electronics, will be completed on May 31, 2013, said Quincy Lin, chairman and CSO of NSP. Lin added that the merger occurred at a ...
Taiwan-based solar cell makers saw March revenues rise compared to February. Motech reported March revenues of NT$1.606 billion (US$53 million), representing an on-month increase of 61.04% and an on-year increase of 5.48%. Gintech saw ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Lighting