China’s installation rush has yet emerged until early March as expected, while PV supply chain have started fluctuating. Strong demand to mono-si products drove the prices to hike during this week; by contrast, spot prices for ...
Tags: mono-si products, PV cell
The Chinese market has started to hold bids for power plants in February. Judging from the winning prices, modules prices have declined. The winning price for 5MW of Hanwha’s 280W mono-Si modules reached RMB 2.91/W (US$ 0.362/W) and ...
Tags: multi-Si wafers, polysilicon
China, as a major market for renewable electricity, has already announced to launch renewable energy certificate (REC) program officially since 2018. This system would be helpful for China to establish a firmer, healthier renewable energy ...
China National Energy Administration released statistics right after the Lunar New Year: Up until late-2016, the cumulative PV installation reached 77.42GW in China. The newly-added installation reached 34.54GW in 2016, a doubled growth ...
Tags: PV installation, mono-Si modules
Although the Lunar New Year holiday has ended, employees in China will have to wait until the Lantern Festival to return to work. In addition, power plant installation has been suspended in China during the Lunar New Year holiday, leading ...
Tags: PV Market, Solar Cell
China has the largest capacity for photovoltaic (PV) energy in the world, official data showed Saturday. China's installed PV capacity was 77.42 million kilowatts at the end of 2016, thanks to 34.54 million kilowatts of capacity added ...
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) officially released the full articles of the 13th Five-Year Plan, regulating the energy development roadmap and action plan from 2016 to 2020. For solar PV, the basic ...
Tags: low-carbon energy, solar PV
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 recent. ...
Tags: PV Cells, Solar Products
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) announced to receive additional capacity target for PV projects for 2016, filed by provinces, region, or municipality by up to 1GW each, in order to cope with surge in such projects as a result ...
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China’s feed-in tariff (FIT) rates for solar PV projects for 2017 has been officially announced by the National Development and Reform Commission. The rates for large-scale, ground-mounted projects in different regions will be ...
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The largest PV plant in Europe is expected to be built in Portugal, with the capacity reaching 221MW upon completion. A Chinese manufacturer has been assigned for this PV plant’s engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) ...
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) have officially announced the 13th Five-Year Plan for power development, including carbon emission, power structure adjustment, ...
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Silicon-based solar cells dominates today’s solar energy industry, while this technology has difficulty in bringing the conversion efficiency beyond 23% for commercialized solar cells in mass production. In order to break the ...
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Taiwan’s government has focused on expanding the island’s PV power generation as part of its plan to abandon nuclear power. In terms of targets, Taiwan aims to add 1.52GW of PV capacity between mid-2016 and mid-2018 and ...
Tags: PV Markets, PV power
Following the step last week, spot prices in the PV supply chain spiked further this week, not only in the up- and midstream sector but also for China's domestic PV modules, a trend expected to continue into first half of November. ...
Tags: PV modules, PV