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 ...
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Trade disputes can often be resolved through dialogue. A good example of this process is the recent deal between China and European Union (EU) concerning solar panels. Dialogue does not always work, however, when it comes to trade between ...
Tags: Sino-US Solar Spat, Mineral
China's Commerce Ministry on Monday imposed five-year duties on solar-grade polysilicon imports from the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK). Starting on Monday, China will apply anti-subsidy duties of up to 2.1 percent and ...
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Taiwan-based polysilicon maker Powertec Energy has raised an additional paid-in capital of NT$3.6 billion (US$120 million) and obtained syndicated loans of NT$4.8 billion to reach the NT$23 billion needed to establish the first phase of its ...
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For years now, Zhenan Bao, a chemical engineering and materials science professor at Stanford University, has been coming up with new techniques to speed up the charge carrier mobility of organic transistors, which have labored under ...
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Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television ...
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After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound, said Ash Sharma, senior research director for solar at IHS. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing ...
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The current promotion of FBR polysilicon technology will begin mass production next year allowing production costs for poly silicon to gradually decrease to US $10/kg (NT $296), said Lu Jinbiao, vice chairman of GCL-Poly Energy Holding ...
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Massive oversupply and downward price pressure have created the misconception that the solar industry suffered from industry-wide commoditization. But not all solar modules are created equal, and profit margins can rise to double-digits for ...
China's leading photovoltaic (PV) producer Hanergy has reiterated that thin-film technology, as opposed to crystalline silicon cells, is the future of solar energy application. Li Hejun, the company's chairman, said most clean energy ...
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Average costs for vertically integrated first-tier makers are now forecast to fall yet another 6% in 2014 to a record low of US$0.20 per watt, according to Solarbuzz. Since 2008, solar PV wafer manufacturing costs (the combined costs of ...
Amid new signs that solar market conditions are improving and major suppliers are increasing production, IHS is raising its forecast of photovoltaic (PV) capital spending. Global capital spending in 2014 by producers of PV modules, cells, ...
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China is to extend a probe into imports of European polysilicon, used for making solar panels, by six months, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, citing the "complicated circumstances" of the case. Solar panels were at the centre of a ...
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Wacker Chemie AG posted slight quarter-on-quarter sales growth between July and September 2013, thanks especially to the surging demand for solar silicon. As already expected, however, the Munich-based chemical group did not match the ...
The production of multicrystalline-silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules is set to dominate PV manufacturing during 2014, with p-type multi c-Si technology accounting for 62% of all modules produced, according to Solarbuzz. Solar ...
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