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CSEM, NREL and EPFL Raise Silicon-Based Multi-Junction Solar Cell Efficiency Record

Aug 30, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...

Tags: Solar Cell, Microtechnology

The Demand of Solar PV Weaker Than Expected

Mar 25, 2017

The overall solar PV demand was weaker than expected during the first quarter of 2017, so it is unsure if the downward price trend could be reverse in April, found EnergyTrend. Polysilicon’s price started decreasing last week and ...

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India to Overtake Japan as The World's Third Largest Solar Market in 2017, Expects Energytrend

Mar 21, 2017

The global solar market has yet to show signs of turnaround after going through the turbulent 2016. The latest Gold Member Solar Report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, forecasts that the global PV demand for 2017 will total just ...

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Demand Remains Weak During The Peak-Selling Season

Feb 24, 2017

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

PV Market Witnesses Stagnation in Prices

Feb 11, 2017

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 ...

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Oversupply to Prevent PV Market From Recovering

Sep 23, 2016

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 analysis indicates ...

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MIT and Masdar Develop Photovoltaic 'step Cell'

Sep 9, 2016

A team of researchers at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has developed a new solar photovoltaic 'step cell' that combines two ...

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Collapsing PV Demand Leads to Sale Decrease

Sep 9, 2016

PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...

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ZSW Regains Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Record with 22.6% CIGS PV Cell

Jun 20, 2016

ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has set a world record for thin-film photovoltaic cell energy ...

Tags: ZSW, silicon cells

ZSW Raises Its CIGS PV Cell Efficiency From 21.7% to European Record of 22%

Apr 5, 2016

By optimizing various manufacturing processes, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised the ...

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PV Cell Prices Are Falling Faster Than Expected

Mar 15, 2016

EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, reports that the global PV market is seeing slowing demand after the Chinese New Year holidays. Peak installation seasons in the U.S. and Japan have passed, and the demand related to China’s ...

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Prices of Multi-Si Wafers and Cells to Peak in Feb

Jan 18, 2016

The general outlook for the 2016 PV market has become more certain as China, the U.S. and the U.K. finalize their respective subsidy policies. “China plans to connect the country’s PV power plants onto the grid before the middle ...

Tags: PV market, multi-Si wafers

Demand and PV Shipment in Japan Both Dropped in 2Q

Dec 1, 2015

Domestic demand to solar PV products in Japan dropped in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 (2015 July to September), leading to domestic PV shipment decrease. JPEA reported an annual PV module shipment decline in the quarter, and the ...

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Cost and Efficiency Are Keys to Mono-Si Market

Nov 25, 2015

The sluggish growth of the mono-Si market this year is notable given the fact that many cell manufacturers had switched from multi-Si to mono-Si production in the second half of 2014. Statistical research conducted by EnergyTrend for the ...

Tags: Mono-Si Market, mono-Si cell

Yingli Green Energy Begins Developing 20MW Project Portfolio in Turkey

Nov 6, 2015

Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Europe has partnered with Motif Proje ve Insaat Ltd. Sti (Motif Proje), one of Turkey's first renewable energy consulting partners, to develop a 20MW PV ...

Tags: Turkey, Yingli Green Energy

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