It was a low period for Chinese and Taiwanese PV industry before U.S. Department of Commerce’s announcement to anti-dumping duties in certain PV imports. EnergyTrend predicts that PV quotations will temporarily remain f... more
Price Trend
PV Wafer and Module Price Quotes Continue to Drop due to Strong Price Competition between Maker |
| published: 2014-07-18 10:51 |
PV manufacturers are still conservative about market demand even though the result of the US-China anti-dumping preliminary verdict will be announced soon. These circumstances have led to weak demand in July and slow stock clearan... more
Demand Uncertainty in July Adds Pressure on Wafer Makers |
| published: 2014-07-11 10:46 |
Impacted by the US-China trade war, PV cell manufacturers’ utilization rates continued to drop in June, and thus affected manufacturers’ sales performances, according to EnergyTrend, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based market... more
Japan Solar Makers to Look for Investment Partners as Japan Plans to Cancel Certain FIT Certifications for Solar Plant Facilities |
| published: 2014-07-04 14:07 |
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) announced on June 17th the withdrawal of FIT certifications for 144 solar plant facilities with capacities totaling 290MW. While there are 288 approved PV project... more
SolarCity Completes Supply Chain Strategy with Silevo Acquisition |
| published: 2014-06-26 20:13 |
SolarCity recently acquired Silevo, a maker of high-efficiency solar modules. SolarCity has also merged with Zep Solar to gain access to innovative module installment technology and will pair up with Paramount Solar and Common a... more
Taiwanese Manufacturers Tread Carefully When Expanding PV Module Capacity |
| published: 2014-06-20 9:44 |
Recently, Taiwanese cell manufacturers’ capacity utilization has dropped because of the countervailing duty (CVD) and anti-dumping duty (AD) issues. However, it is rumored that some makers plan to expand their module capacit... more
Utilization Rates to Drop by the End of June, Long-Term Demand may Increase After Anti-Dumping Preliminary Verdict Announcements |
| published: 2014-06-13 11:53 |
Impacted by the surprising initial verdict on unfair subsidies for Chinese solar panels announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), PV manufacturers in both China and Taiwan are now on their toes anticipating the prelimina... more
US to Impose High Tariffs on Chinese PV Products, Taiwanese Manufacturers May Benefit |
| published: 2014-06-06 9:13 |
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced to impose countervailing duties (CVD) on certain Chinese PV cells and modules, hitting Trina Solar with rate of 18.56%, Wuxi Suntech with 35.21% and all others with 26.89%. EnergyTrend for... more
PV Manufacturers Focus on Strategy Deployment as Downstream Market Demand Continues to Increase |
| published: 2014-05-30 18:16 |
Demand in the China’s Distributed PV market continues to increase, which caused manufacturers to come up with solutions in response to the trend. From the 8th SNEC Exhibition, which ended last week, we can see that PV service inte... more
Stronger Demand to Mono-si Drives Capacity Expansions |
| published: 2014-05-28 14:56 |
High-performance products stand an important position at SNEC 2014. Adding the fact that cell manufacturers have started to implement high-efficiency production processes, mono-si wafer demand therefore become stronger. Ene... more
