According to China-based media reports, during boom times from 2010-2011, the number of firms in major solar segments (wafer, cell, and module) increased from 807 to 901, an increase of 11.65% on year. Due to the trade war and oversupply in ...
Tags: China, solar cell, solar supply, polysilicon, market
The Taiwan-based solar supply chain is likely to enter a period of consolidation. For upstream material providers, consolidation between downstream customers may create pressure on their costs. Digitimes recently sat down with Chi-jen Chen, ...
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Taiwan-based solar conductive paste maker Giga Solar has reported December revenues of NT$181 million (US$6.23 million), showing a decrease of 34.42% on month and a decrease of 0.18% on year. The accumulated total revenues for 2012 were ...
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Tier-one China-based solar wafer makers have decreased shipments to control supply in an attempt to increase prices later in January, according to industry sources in Taiwan. In line with the price increase of 5-10% aimed by Taiwan-based ...
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Intermolecular (IMI) and First Solar announced they have entered into a two-year collaboration and licensing agreement focused on further increases to the conversion efficiency of First Solar's cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell ...
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Intermolecular Inc of San Jose,CA,USA and First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA have entered into a two-year collaboration and licensing agreement focused on further increases to the conversion efficiency of First Solar's cadmium ...
Tags: First Solar, licensing agreement, CdTe, solar cell
Taiwan-based tier-one solar cell firms plan to increase prices by 5-10%. According to downstream solar firms in Taiwan, solar cell makers previously did try to increase prices in the second half of 2012 but in the end were not successful. ...
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Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH,USA,which makes scientific sensors,instruments and systems for precise measurement and control,is instituting a new service enabling customers to download Ethernet and instrument firmware and ...
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Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has announced reference designs for what it claims are the world’s lightest and highest-energy-density flexible military charging mats. Alta fabricates single-junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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China's solar supply chain has been dumping inventory recently but this has been easing as the number of competitors decreases. Many small- and medium-size firms are unlikely to revive production in 2013 and this has been causing the price ...
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Japan-based Kaneka, a solar firm that produces N-type mono-crystalline solar cell using heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) technology, has reportedly been discussing cooperation with Taiwan-based firms such as Gintech and Neo ...
Tags: Kaneka, solar cell, HIT, NSP, Taiwan
China Sunergy Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of solar cells and modules, today announced that the company has set up a new manufacturing facility in Istanbul, Turkey with local partner Seul Energy Investment Corp., a solar system provider, solar ...
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China-based Hareon Solar has announced that the firm has obtained government funding of CNY210 million (US$33 million), and has accumulated total subsidies of CNY500 million in one week. This is likely to help the firm to return to ...
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Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech plans to introduce P-type mono-crystalline solar cells with an efficiency of 20% in first-half 2013, according to Wen-Whe Pan, company president and COO. Pan added that initial mass production capacity ...
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For the global solar industry, 2012 has been about trade wars. The US and Europe both started anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations against the world's largest solar supply chain, China. In addition, oversupply continues to plague ...
Tags: Trade Wars, Global Solar Market, global solar industry, Energy