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]
It’s no secret, Chinese solar module manufacturers have come along and dominated the solar module market. In 2012, according to IHS, six out of the top ten solar module manufacturers were Chinese companies, including #1 Yingli Green Energy. Now, a recent Solarbuzz report found that Chinese solar module manufacturers led … [continued]
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This article was originally published on RenewEconomy. Here’s an interesting graph used by Suntech’s Stuart Wenham (sourced from Applied Materials) during a presentation at the Solar 2013 conference in Melbourne on Thursday. It highlights the extent of “grid parity” for solar PV across the world – it is now in … [continued]
GTM Research recently collected, compiled, and estimated solar PV manufacturing numbers for PVNews’ 29th annual PV production data collection effort, with data from RTS Corporation supplemented for the Japanese producers. One of the most striking (though expected) trends was that year-over-year solar module production stopped growing in leaps and bounds. In … [continued]
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Reposted from Solar Love (with minor changes): Market research firm IHS has released a report on the top solar module manufacturers of 2012. Regular readers may think this sounds familiar. If so, it’s probably because you’re remembering the Solarbuzz report on the top solar module manufacturers of 2012 that we reported … [continued]
We’ve already written about the fact that the solar industry is simply going through a maturation process, and that the “solar shakeout” is equivalent to what every major technology industry has gone through (click that link above for more on all that). Last week, however, Giles Parkinson shared a must-see … [continued]
For those interested in solar module manufacturing news, and Suntech news in general, here are two notable statements Suntech published today and yesterday: Suntech Appoints Philip Fan And Weiping Zhou To Board Of Directors Mr. Zhou Appointed President of Suntech Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world’s … [continued]
Reposted from Suntech’s website: WUXI, China, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/— Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) (“Suntech” or the “Company”) today announced that it has received from the trustee of its 3% Convertible Notes (the “Notes”) a notice of default and acceleration relating toSuntech’s non-payment of the principal amount of US$541 million that was due to … [continued]
