Price Trend

Stronger Market Demand May Sustain PV Silicon Wafer’s Prices in 2Q

published: 2014-05-15 18:00

Market demands to PV silicon wafers may remain stable as many manufacturers have reported growing monthly revenues. Meanwhile, demands also increased because of the postponement of US DoC’s initial verdict for anti-dumping d... more

Wacker Benefits From EU-China Polysilicon Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Issues

published: 2014-05-08 17:23

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced on April 30, 2014, that they will impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy taxes on European solar-grade polysilicon imports. Since China has signed a price agreement with Germany-based Wacke... more

Silicon Thin-Film Market Share to Fall in the Short Run with DuPont Thin-Film Production Shutdown

published: 2014-05-02 18:57

DuPont announced the termination of their silicon thin-film operations by the end of 2014 with gradual shut down the silicon thin-film production lines at their subsidiary company. Silicon thin-film market share is likely to keep ... more

Slow Stock Clearance Rate Impacts PV Price Trend

published: 2014-04-25 18:11

PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhi... more

PV Mono-Si Cell Demand May Increase Due to Bridged Price Gaps

published: 2014-04-17 17:35

Impacted by recent market demand changes and narrowing price gaps, mono-si cell demand may increase in 2Q14, analyzed EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. In regards to spot market, there is limited room for further pri... more

Changes Within PV Market Leads to Lowered Prices in 2Q14

published: 2014-04-10 16:16

Recent changes in the PV market have led to China’s waning demands at the end of March 2014, while further observations are required for orders in April this year. These have led to lowered price quotes for relevant product... more

Significant Drop in PV Price Quotes Puts More Pressure onto Wafer Manufacturers

published: 2014-04-03 18:11

Recent wafer spot price reflected a downtrend. Price quotes for high-efficiency multi-si wafer dropped from US$1.04-1.05/piece in mid-March to US$1.02-1.04/piece lately. For normal-grade products, quotation also declined from US... more

Wafer Price Decreases Due to Season Pre-Load and Weaker Demand

published: 2014-03-29 12:16

Recent changes in spot market trends have led to substantial decline in PV products trading prices. Price quotes for polysilicon to modules dropped around 1%-3%, noted EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. Whether demand... more

Japan’s Lowered PV Feed-in Tariff May Cause ROI Decrease 3-5%

published: 2014-03-24 18:28

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced it will lower PV Feed-in Tariff (FiT) in fiscal year 2014. For PV systems with capacity of 10kW and above, commercial PV FiT will be revised down from 36 yen... more

PV Spot Price May Increase in Q2 Due to Process Delay on US-China Anti-dumping and Countervailing Investigation

published: 2014-03-17 9:20

The US Department of Commerce announced on March, 11th that the anti-subsidy initial judgment for certain Chinese crystalline silicon PV products will be extended from March, 28th to June, 2nd. EnergyTrend, a research division of ... more

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