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Sichuan Government, amidst the consecutive days of high temperature, announced that all businesses are to suspend production for six days until midnight on August 20th in order to ensure grid safety by placing priority on public power consumption. As the market worries that such implementation may affect Taiwanese suppliers, Foxconn responded that the company has not received any major impact, while Quanta and Wistron responded with “no impact”. ...  more

With the arrival of the heat wave in Europe, natural gas and nuclear power plants are unable to fully exert their generation under such high temperature, and has thus resulted in power inhibitions for the entire continent. Fortunately, Bloomberg’s model projects that Europe’s wind power generation would start to increase next week, which means that not only is the power supply crisis slightly mitigated, but also a reduction in temperature. ...  more

FamilyMart launched Taiwan's first smart retail electric vehicle (EV) "FamiMobi" which will be the first to drive into Tainan Science Park from August 1st on an initial trial operation basis. ...  more

Companies that are involved in the lithium battery supply chain have been expanding their presence in the solid-state battery segment in the recent years. Among them, major Chinese lithium supplier Ganfeng Lithium has just launched a major project to develop solid-state batteries and scale up production for the related products. ...  more

Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt has announced a joint development agreement with Finnish forestry company Stora Enso to manufacture batteries using lignin-based hard carbon produced from renewable wood in Nordic forests. This is also the world's first anode industrial battery made entirely of European raw materials, aiming to reduce carbon footprint and production costs. ...  more

The government of Zhuhai, which is a major city in the China’s Guangdong Province, formally released its energy development strategy under the 14th Five-Year Plan on July 26. According to the strategy, the city’s generation capacity will increase by 7,700MW to reach 13,890MW by 2025. ...  more

aifian, under financial technology startup Adenovo, announced today that the subsidiary will be joining hands with Sunnyfounder to contribute to net zero emission by encouraging bourgeoisie procurement of solar panels with an approximate price of NT$20K per panel and becoming owners of national power plants, thus elevating the ratio of green power generation for Taiwan. ...  more

On August 5, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) posted a notice on its website detailing the performance of the domestic industrial silicon (metallic silicon) industry in the first half of 2022. Highlights are as follows: ...  more

Silicon China, a branch of China Nonferrous Metal Industry Association, released its latest report on the price trends of polysilicon materials used in the manufacturing of PV products on August 10. This update pertains to prices in China during this week (i.e., the week of August 8). ...  more