L R AS Published on Wednesday 15 March 2023 - n° 436 - Categories:News of the Month
This week's highlights, as of 12 March 2023
The point in focus
A careful observer is constantly being asked to make announcements of new production units in Chinese photovoltaics, new plans for capacity increases that sometimes follow each other at intervals of two or three months. At the risk of believing that it is the same announcement repeated with a delay!
It is only a question of a well-planned organisation that anticipates a growth in demand and provides for a safety margin that is often double the manufacturing volume
The first important point is that investment drives production capacity and subsequently production. Hence the interest of this information
China represents 91% of the investments in the PV sector in 2022
2nd secondary point: The
What is the return on PV + heat pumps in Europe, excluding purchase costs?
3rd point (subsidiary) From the companies' point of view
Reden Solar to build and operate 26 PV plants in Italy
Maxeon completes its start-up period
SMA in 2022: improved profitability, but reduced growth
Other interesting points :
PV statistics for France at the end of 2022
Silicon prices stabilise over the past month
More evidence of the benefits of agrivoltaics