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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 ...

Tags: PV Market, PV cell

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

Margin of PV Cells Squeezed Due to Price Trend

Jan 8, 2017

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

Lower Polysilicon Prices Trigger Price Drop

Sep 12, 2016

Despite annual equipment maintenance restraining production volumes, prices on China's polysilicon have tumbled on weak demand, signaling across-the-board price drop in the PV supply chain. The price decline reverses the long-term higher ...

Tags: polysilicon, OV

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, ...

Tags: PV market, PV industry

PV Utilization Rate to Drop Further in August

Aug 7, 2016

Due to rapid decline in cell prices, the mono and multi-Si wafer market witnessed weaker prices. Taiwanese manufacturers couldn’t tolerate prices above US$ 0.72/pc, which put pressures on wafer manufacturers. The average trading price ...

Tags: solar cell, PV

Prices in All Segments of PV Supply Chain Weakened

Apr 29, 2016

Orders have been confirmed for May. Aside from polysilicon that sees stronger prices, prices in all segment of PV supply chain have weakened. The industry will cool down after June 30th, where grid-connection will mostly be completed by ...

Tags: Polysilicon, PV Supply

Taiwan-Made Cells' Price Fell by 2.5% in The Market

Apr 12, 2016

In the China market, polysilicon has been slightly shortage in supply because newly added mono-si wafer and multi-si wafer capacities cause difficulties to procure spot products. Therefore, mainland China's polysilicon price had reached RMB ...

Tags: Polysilicon, PV Cells

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

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

Mono-Si Market is the Only Exception to A Hot PV Sector

Nov 4, 2015

Soaring demand from China, Japan and the U.S. ensures that the first-tier photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers are booked in orders up to the first quarter of 2016. Currently, prices are rising for all multi-Si products from wafers to ...

Tags: Mono-Si Market, PV Sector, wafer

Policy Directives Drives The Demand for PV Systems

Oct 17, 2015

Policy directives from the Chinese government continue to drive the country’s demand for photovoltaic (PV) systems. China’s National Energy Agency has recently increased the national PV installation target and expects an ...

Tags: PV Systems, Solar Cell

Lasertec Launches System for Concurrent Surface and Pl Crystallographic Defect Inspection of SiC Wafers

Sep 29, 2015

Metrology and inspection equipment maker Lasertec Corp of Yokohama, Japan has launched SICA88, the latest model of its SiC wafer inspection and review systems. Featuring both surface and photoluminescence (PL) inspection capabilities, ...

Tags: Lasertec, SiC Wafers

China to Realize 4.5GW of PV Cell Capacity in 2015

Jul 21, 2015

The final ruling of U.S.’s review of 2012 anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) against certain Chinese PV cells addressed the importance of PV capacities in countries out of China and Taiwan. The AD/CVD rates for PV cells ...

Tags: PV Cells, PV module

Strong Downstream Demands Make Spot Prices up

Jun 19, 2015

The latest photovoltaic (PV) price update by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, shows the downstream sector of the industry has been seeing brisk orders since the start of June. Stock up demands for this month also starts to pick up ...

Tags: PV System, PV Price

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