Tongwei Group and Daqo New Energy, two of the world’s largest, and China’s largest producers of solar grade polysilicon materials, have announced a cutback on production of high-purity polysilicon amid falling prices and financial losses. The firms ended H1 of 2024 with significant losses from their operations, and in likelihood, H2 has been no better. […]
China’s Solar Bankruptcy Provide Proof Of Pain From Low Prices With over 40 manufacturers boasting of GW plus manufacturing facilities, China’s solar juggernaut has screeched to a halt in the past year, at least on the manufacturing side. Overcapacity has plagued the sector, leading to crash in prices and the pain is showing. Even as […]
Vedanta Aluminium Adds 66 Units Of Electric Forklifts In Odisha Vedanta Aluminium has expanded its fleet of electric lithium-ion forklifts to 66 units with the additional 22 electric forklifts at its smelter operations in Jharsuguda, Odisha. Deployed across Vedanta Aluminium’s units in Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh in Odisha, as well as its BALCO smelter in Chhattisgarh, […]
Over the past 10 days, as numbers have continued to pour out from the listed players from China’s formidable solar sector, the impact of the low solar module prices seen over the past two quarters and more is clearly visible on their earnings as well. Even as volumes have grown in many cases, revenues have […]
Trina Solar, a PV and energy storage solutions firm has announced that it has established a “Photovoltaic Open Innovation Ecological Alliance” with five other manufacturers. They claim that this joint initiative would bring standardizing in applying the design of 700W+ PV modules. Other companies that are part of the alliance are, Astronergy, Canadian Solar, Risen […]
Germany research firm Bernreuter Research predicts an imminent, and third shakeout in the global polysilicon industry in 2024. This would be caused by sustained, low polysilicon prices that will only go lower, before any sort of recovery post 2024. The trigger will be Chinese polysilicon market leader Tongwei that will usher in a phase of […]
Even as module prices fell below the widely watched $0.2/W levels in China, the biggest integrated manufacturers continue to move ahead on their expansion plans. Tongwei, the Chengdu-based food and aquaculture firm that was happy to stop at cell manufacturing until a little over a year back, has moved aggressively into module manufacturing in the […]
As per a Bernreuter Research, all top four manufacturers of solar grade polysilicon are now located in China; they produced more than 100,000 MT each in 2022. Chinese polysilicon manufacturer Tongwei says it has extended its position as the world market leader in the polysilicon industry. In 2022, the firm produced 1.6 times as much […]
As the largest solar energy producer in the world, China offers conducive conditions for the solar market. Last year, as installations surged worldwide, including almost 90 GW in China itself, Chinese suppliers of raw materials for solar panels emerged as the winners in the photovoltaic energy boom amidst rising prices. Reports say that some 31 […]
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