The contract price of polysilicon has dropped from US$42-43/kg at the beginning of October to US$36-37/kg due to weak demand. According to industry sources, the price has decreased...
UK-based solar firm PV Crystalox Solar has decided to lower solar wafer capacity in the UK and Germany for a short period of time. The firm has also decided to temporarily halt polysilicon...
The spot price of polysilicon in Greater China has continued to drop. However, the price drop of 125 mono solar wafers has halted, according to Chihheng Liang, analyst from Digitimes...
While China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, ReneSola, JA Solar Holdings and Yingli Green Energy holding have been promoting solar-grade mono-like wafers, which are claimed to be able...
The demand-dominated solar market has been shifting towards solar cells with high conversion efficiencies. Compared with mainstream polycrystalline solar products, monocrystalline...
The third-quarter financial performance of Taiwan's solar firms should be better than the in second quarter due to relatively stable control of materials, according to industry sources...
The spot price of polysilicon continued to demonstrate significant falls last week (October 10-14), dropping to US$36/kg. Compared to the price in September, the spot price for polysilicon...
With China expecting slower growth in regional solar markets such as Europe over the next few years, the government has set out to increase domestic demand during its 12th Five Year...
With suppliers digesting their inventory as well as cutting back on output, a slowdown in the growth of supply is expected to help the solar market move toward a more balanced supply...
Germany-based polysilicon supplier Wacker Chemie AG has announced the beginning of production of hyperpure polycrystalline silicon at its Nunchritz site in Germany. First deposition...
REC Silicon has experienced a power supply outage with a 100% power loss and consequently all of REC Silicon's manufacturing facilities in Moses Lake, Washington, were shut down on...
The annual PV Taiwan 2011 taking place in Taipei from October 5-7 features many industry leading firms such as Siemens, GCL-Poly, OCI and Roth&Rau. The exhibition is divided into...
China-based integrated solar firm GCL-Poly Energy Holdings expects to lower its production of polycrystalline silicon to US$20/kg by the end of 2011 compared to US$21.8 in the first...
There has been a serious global oversupply of crystalline silicon solar cells, with total inventory volumes likely to increase to as much as 12GWp in the fourth quarter of 2011, according...