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Meyer Burger resists rebel shareholder at EGM
at the thought of taking on more debt at a time when its profit margins in China were getting ever thinner. The subsequent decision, in August, by chief
Oct 31, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Europe, meyer burger, Switzerland, EGM, Mark Kerekes, Sentis
First evidence reveals solar parks can cool down surrounding land
group of researchers, from Lancaster University, Ludong University in China, and also the University of California Davis in the USA concentrated on 2
Oct 26, 2021 // Technology, USA, China, Asia, North America, Solar Park, Lancaster University, Alona Armstrong, Ludong University, University of California Davis
Wealthiest Green Entrepreneurs Lose $141 Billion as Market Turns
And 20 of the 23 green tycoons tracked by Bloomberg made their lot of money in China, where the overall economy is still kept back by regular and punishing
Jun 13, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Elon Musk, North America, Green Entrepreneurs, Eve Energy, Li Bin
Tendency toward diversification
all superior high efficiency bifacial cells come from Chinese manufacturers, China’s domestic demand offers an advantage of convenience over overseas markets,
Aug 27, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, wafers, bifacial modules, bifacial cells, EnergyTrend
Organic solar module with 14.4% effectiveness
group of scientists from the South China University of Technology has created an organic solar module with an area of 18 cm2 and an efficiency of
Sep 2, 2020 // Technology, China, Asia, organic solar cell, efficiency, organic module
NorSun Exits Norway, Invests in U.S. Solar Production
its domestic operations, primarily due to the impact of low-cost imports from China and Southeast Asia. This decision follows a period of difficulty, including a
Dec 18, 2024 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, NorSun
Qualitas, Northleaf Sell Major Solar Plant in Spain
Energy has sold a 494-MWp solar park in Murcia, Spain, to China Three Gorges, confirming an earlier report. This divestment, carried out with investment
Dec 31, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, PV Power Plant, Qualitas Energy
China’s Solar Rebounds as Year-End Rush Accelerates
China added 22 gigawatts of solar power in November, the highest in six months, National Energy Administration data show. The tally trailed the 25 gigawatts a year earlier and follows a record 93 gigawatts in May, when developers pulled forward projects ahead of policy changes, fueling a summer slump.Activity has recovered since September as developers rush to finish work before the 14th five-year plan ends; Beijing is expected to unveil a new plan in March. BloombergNEF cut its 2025 China solar forecast 9% to 372 gigawatts and projects a 14% contraction in 2026. Wind additions were 12.5 gigawatts.
How do policy deadlines drive November’s 22 GW and BNEF’s 2025-26 downgrade?
- Year-end FYP cutoff: Projects connected before the 14th Five-Year Plan closes qualify for existing grid-priority, settlement, and performance assessment regimes, prompting developers to rush November connections to secure current benefits.
Green certificate and RPS timing: Provinces finalize renewable portfolio standard compliance and green power certificate issuance on a calendar-year basis, pulling grid connections into Nov–Dec to count toward 2024 targets.
Provincial rooftop deadlines: County-level distributed PV programs set year-end connection milestones to lock in contract terms and financing; installers accelerated completions ahead of audits and funding windows.
Pre-empting tighter 2025 rules: Developers moved fast to avoid expected 2025 requirements—higher storage ratios/durations, stricter curtailment caps, and revised interconnection standards—that would lift capex and lengthen timelines.
Land-use transitions: Forthcoming changes to agrivoltaic and land conversion rules incentivized bringing projects online under current classifications and permitting.
Grid queue management: Grid companies prioritize year-end energizations to meet provincial KPIs, concentrating grid slots in November and creating a temporary spike.
Policy handover pause: With the 15th FYP due in March, many utility-scale tenders and rooftop program expansions are on hold; uncertainty about new quotas and tariffs defers part of the 2025 pipeline, underpinning BNEF’s downgrade.
Curtailment-linked approvals: New capacity is increasingly tied to demonstrable local consumption and storage; provinces facing high curtailment are throttling 2025 allocations, lowering expected additions.
Transmission timing: Slippage in some UHV line energizations and congested load pockets constrain near-term absorption, forcing schedule deferrals from 2025 into later years.
Financing scrutiny: Banks tightened lending to rural/distributed projects after performance and settlement reviews, elongating development cycles and trimming 2025 volumes.
Safety and quality reviews: Expanded rooftop safety/fire-code inspections slowed new approvals, pushing a portion of distributed PV beyond 2024 and softening 2025 growth.
Tariff exposure: A shift toward more market-based power pricing in 2025 reduces revenue certainty versus legacy fixed settlements, lowering IRRs and delaying final investment decisions.
Storage mandates bite: Provinces raising storage requirements in 2025–26 add cost and integration complexity, dampening additions and contributing to the 2026 contraction.
Quota saturation: Several provinces met 2024 non-fossil targets early, easing short-term compliance pressure and reducing the need for aggressive 2025 build.
Inter-technology crowding: Year-end wind connections share substation and transmission capacity, pulling forward solar that could be connected and pushing the remainder into a thinner 2025–26 window.
Dec 26, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia
GCL-SI pumps US$ 122 million into kick-starting building of new 60GW Hefei plant
base in the Leshan Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in Sichuan Province, China.
In a subsequent press statement, GCL-SI kept in mind that the Hefei mega
Jan 11, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, China, SMSL, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, Asia, Eric Luo, gcl system integration technology
Canadian Solar unit reveals utility-scale battery
Storage presently creates the SolBank at its workshops in Jiangsu District in China. The current yearly battery manufacturing output capacity is 2.5 GWh and also
Oct 14, 2022 // Storage, Canadian Solar
Meyer Burger raises another $14m by selling software subsidiary
year reversed a decision to relocate significant parts of its operations to China in favor of supplying its equipment in its European homeland and this week
Oct 25, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, solar cells, Europe, Asia, meyer burger, Switzerland, AIS Automation Dresden GmbH
Kalyon Enerji finds Chinese partner for 500 MW module fab in Turkey
agreement with Chinese state-owned military surveillance contractor China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. The Chinese entity operates in the
Oct 29, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Kalyon Enerji, Eren Engur, Turkey, Hanwha Q-Cells
Collaboration for 20 percent efficient CIGS solar modules
German HZB, as well as top solar manufacturers SMIT (Netherlands) and Avancis (China).
Last year, Japanese Solar Frontier established the performance record at
Dec 6, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, France, Germany, China, Europe, Asia, solar cell, Netherlands, HZB, CIGS, SMIT, Solar Frontier, flexible module, Solliance, IMN
AC Energy begin on 283-MW solar park in the Philippines
energy firm has actually hired Power Construction Corporation of China Ltd and also PowerChina Philippines Corp as the engineering, procurement and
Nov 8, 2021 // Plants, Asia, Philippines, AC Energy, PV Power Plant, Solar Park
JinkoSolar pens 2GW Brazilian module supply bargain
distribution arrangement the business has actually authorized outside of China.
Under the regards to the offer, around 4 million JinkoSolar modules will
Dec 2, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, South america, Latin america, JinkoSolar, Brazil, PV module, aldo solar












