Identifying the huge opportunity available in the Indian solar power market, Chinese cell and module manufacturer Longi Green Energy Technology has announced plans to set up a fabrication unit in India. Construction on the facility will likely begin by the year’s end.
According to media reports, the price of Chinese modules has increased by more than 47% from the price project developers of India’s cheapest solar power projects had assumed during the competitive auctions in May.
The troubled solar photovoltaic module manufacturer Yingli Solar was recently awarded the “TUV Rheinland Star for 2015 PV Module Energy Yield” at the TUV Rheinland Solar Congress 2016, the company announced. In addition, the company’s solar photovoltaic (PV) module was rated as a “Five-star PV Module” at the event. The … [continued]
An interview with Arndt Lutz, of REC Group about US tariffs on imported Chinese & Taiwanese solar products.
The newest edition of the Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme report was recently released by the IEA — detailing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market as well as country- and region-specific solar PV markets. This 19th edition of the report provides a number of highly interesting/useful … [continued]
Thought Suntech was dead… just because it went bankrupt and all? Not so much. The large, China-based solar PV company just announced that it is launching a new quick-install solar PV module in conjunction with Zep Solar. Notably, Zep Solar was actually bought by SolarCity recently. Its streamlined mounting and grounding products … [continued]
This article was originally published on Solar Love. Rather than take the course the United States took, EU member states have overwhelmingly voted against imposing provisional anti-dumping duties on solar imports from China. The vote was 18 opposed, 4 in favor, and 5 abstaining. A proposed 47% average anti-dumping duty … [continued]
This article was originally published on Solar Love. Update: Provisional duties on solar imports have been overwhelmingly voted down, but the 47% duties may still move forward. Will we finally see the end of the Chinese solar trade soap opera? Maybe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese premier Li Keqiang this … [continued]
Greentech Media shared an interesting graph last week. It shows the analysts’ solar price decline projections compared to what actually happened. The chart, below, obviously shows that Chinese crystalline silicon solar module prices have dropped faster than anyone projected they would. The key points here are that analysts are not … [continued]
