Search



Panda Green writes off another $5.6m
projects with a total generation capacity of 96 MW in the Shanxi province of China. Apart from constituting a RMB40 million (US$5.6 million) loss on
Sep 9, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Panda Green, Changzhou Zhaolian
China’s industry group tells solar makers: stop below-cost price wars
China’s solar sector has been locked in a painful price war—until now. The China Photovoltaic Industry Association has called on manufacturers to halt below-cost selling and schedule production based on real demand, after fresh consultations with companies and government agencies. The statement also pushes for higher safety and quality standards and for buyers to consider more than headline price in procurement. This is part of a wider, state-backed effort to curb “disordered competition” and phase out outdated capacity across polysilicon, wafers, cells, and modules. Beijing has telegraphed deeper reforms, including potential consolidation vehicles to retire inefficient plants—though local politics and financing structures will determine how much capacity actually exits. Analysts warn that utilization could remain depressed without meaningful cuts. For global buyers, the implications are nuanced. A return to discipline may lift upstream prices from extreme lows, complicating budgets for late-2025 projects. But steadier markets usually mean fewer supplier failures, better quality control, and more bankable warranties—advantages that matter for long-lived assets. For Chinese manufacturers, the message is blunt: compete on technology, reliability, and service—not just price. Those with strong balance sheets, high-efficiency lines, and diversified export channels are best positioned if closures or quotas arrive. Watch for follow-through: provincial stances on plant retirements, any formal quota mechanisms, and early moves in polysilicon and wafer spot prices. If discipline holds, the worst of the price war may be over—and a more sustainable industry could emerge.
Aug 25, 2025 // Manufacturing News, Policy, China, CPIA, Asia, PV module, overcapacity
Solar to oppose module cost, supply chain headwinds on way to 181GW in 2021: IHS
to be mounted this year, based on installs in high-growth markets such as China and also the US. IHS claimed the solar market would certainly defy headwinds
Mar 29, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, IHS Markit, Asia, finance, Edurne Zoco, consolidation, module prices, Josefin Berg
Tongwei tops polysilicon ranks as organization table established for shakeup in 2022
by 3 various other Chinese essentials-- GCL-Poly, Daqo and Xinte Energy, with China's share of the solar-grade polysilicon market set to near 90% in the coming
May 13, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Tongwei, xinte energy, polysilicon, wacker chemie, Daqo New Energy, GCL-Poly, bernreuter research
How will China’s electricity price reform affect solar?
broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) on Thursday night dropped a bombshell on solar developers by reporting the manner in which the price of
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, China, Asia, China Central Television, NDRC, Song Jie Cao
The ‘butterfly effect’ of Chinese PV listings
typhoon in Japan. ‘Flapping wings’ The shift of PV production to China was caused by a series of events, including the listing of Chinese solar
Nov 29, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Canadian Solar, China, JA Solar, JinkoSolar, Asia, Trina Solar, North America, Hanwha Q Cells, Martin Andrew Green
Asia Pacific solar and also wind financial investments to double by 2030-- Wood Mackenzie
China, Japan, India, South Korea as well as Taiwan are expected to be top factors to renewables investments in the area, which is readied to add an average of 140GW of solar as well as wind capacity every year by the end of the decade, accounting for two-thirds of complete power capability enhancements. With China aiming for greater than 1,200 GW of installed solar and wind by 2030, Wood Mackenzie forecasts this will certainly call for at the very least 534GW of renewables to be added in the next years. Since March this year, the country had 259GW of mounted solar, and also the sector is readied to be increased by new actions focused on fast-tracking PV project growth. Southeast Asia is set to gain from US$ 14 billion of yearly solar and wind financial investments by 2040, creating simply under half of overall power financial investments in the region. Vietnam was a star performer in 2020, with greater than 9GW of roof PV mounted before a feed-in toll due date. In other places, Malaysia is set to increase its mounted solar capacity fourfold by the end of the decade, according to research study from working as a consultant Fitch Solutions, many thanks partly to enhanced financing rewards and also the country's successful tender policy. " Southeast Asia is just one of the best solar market regions in the world, with mounted capacity greater than increasing every year since 2018. There will certainly be a short-lived slow down with subsidies drew back, however the area will certainly add over 100GW of solar in the next 10 years," claimed Wood Mackenzie elderly expert Rishab Shrestha claimed. Southeast Asia is likewise anticipated to be a crucial location for module shipments from Seraphim, whose head of state informed PV Tech previously this month that the manufacturer is aiming to build on a host of supply deals in the region, as well as in Australia as well as Europe. The China-headquartered company introduced strategies late last year for a 750MW module setting up plant in Vietnam that will certainly generate its S3 and also S4 series half-cell modules. With Asia Pacific at the epicentre of solar technology advancement, Wood Mackenzie claimed the area is the test area of new technologies that have wonderful potential to lower solar capital expenditure along with procedures as well as upkeep expenses. Principal analyst Xiaojing Sun added: "Solar's economic competition rests on the market's ongoing leverage on new innovations to reduce levelised price of electricity, rise project integrity and improve electricity production. We are going to see lots of technology developments flourishing in the region in the coming years."
Jun 24, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Wood Mackenzie, China, Asia, Xiaojing Sun, Rishab Shrestha, Asia Pacific
Business petition US profession payment to expand tariffs regardless of industry cautions
tariffs, originally executed in 2018 as a reaction to low-cost imports from China, is essential since neither of them have actually had the ability to full
Aug 3, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, SEIA, North America, tariffs, suniva, auxin, Mamun Rashid
JinkoSolar primed for IPO this month as new information emerge
the outcomes of the listing and subsequent float revealed by 21 January 2022. China Securities and also CITIC Securities are serving as joint-lead experts on the
Jan 7, 2022 // Manufacturing News, IPO, JinkoSolar, topcon, n-type
Canada wins USMCA trade conflict with the United States, intends to make sure 'full advantage' for its solar market
puzzling, especially taking into consideration the USITC's searchings for. China tested the choice, asking for a dispute panel with the World Trade
Feb 17, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, North America, section 201, import tariffs, solar imports, cusma, usmca
Arctech To Supply 2.1 GW SkySmart II Trackers for the Largest PV Power Plant in the Middle East
has revealed the finalizing of a 2.1 GW trackers supply agreement with China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) on 3rd September, for Al Dhafra PV2
Sep 7, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, CMEC, solar trackers, arctech, Guy Rong, Al Dhafra PV2 Solar park, china national industrial machinery corporation, skymart II trackers
Lithium Costs Are Rising, Stimulating More Offers for Key Battery Metal
active ingredient to power electric vehicles. Lithium carbonate costs in China are at record highs after a virtually fivefold boost in the past year,
Oct 7, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, China, Asia, lithium
JA Solar including 10,000 MT of monocrystalline silicon ingot ability
ability development news in 2020, right after a supply relisting in China at the end of 2019. JA Solar had actually claimed in January 2020 that it had
Feb 25, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, JA Solar, c-si manufacturing, Asia, monocrystalline wafer
Masdar starts 1-GW solar project in Iraq
to be deployed by Chinese state-owned empire Power Construction Corp of China (Power China). The three projects are anticipated to enter into
Jun 27, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Masdar, Asia, Iraq, Solar Project
Biden management to spend US$ 56m to support solar manufacturing
of financing for silicon-based items whose supply chain is mainly reliant of China as well as Southeast Asia. Even more so as prices of polysilicon in
Jul 18, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, perovskite, North America, Joe Biden, doe, Jennifer Granholm, cadmium