AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:trade war
The gap between China's capacity and the rest of the world is growing even wider!
To break China's dominance in renewable energy, other countries would have to invest $700 billion in the mining and manufacturing sectors to develop their production capacity. This concerns supply chains
AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:trade war
The American company Auxin Solar relaunches legal proceedings against Chinese products
The initiator of the request for tariffs on imports of Chinese solar products in 2022, the American company Auxin Solar, is relaunching legal proceedings against the US Department of Commerce.
L R AS Published on Monday 18 December 2023 - n° 470 - Categories:industrial strategy
Company highlights: SMA in the United States, Enphase inverters, Scatec 540 MW plant, Nextracker 10 GW plant
Company news: SMA in the US, Enphase inverters, Scatec 540 MW plant, Nextracker 10 GW
SMA plans to build an inverter production site in the United States, with an annual capacity of
L R AS Published on Monday 11 December 2023 - n° 469 - Categories:capacity increase/decrease
Industry news in brief: financing for Midsummer's thin films in Sweden, Canada's Heliene increases its capacity
Industry news in brief: financing for Midsummer's thin films in Sweden, Canada's Heliene increases its capacity
Sweden's Midsummer receives €32 million from the European Union
L R AS Published on Saturday 9 December 2023 - n° 469 - Categories:capacity increase/decrease
Midsummer invests in thin films in Sweden and in cells and panels in Italy
Sweden's Midsummer receives €32 million from the European Union to build a 200 MW CIGS thin-film production unit in Sweden.
L R AS Published on Saturday 9 December 2023 - n° 469 - Categories:capacity increase/decrease
Canadian company Heliene increases its panel production capacity
Canada's Heliene is doubling its PV panel production capacity in the United States to 300 MW and adding a second 500 MW line. The company plans to manufacture
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:Germany, trade war
Solarwatt to make 10% of its staff redundant by the end of the year
German photovoltaic panel supplier Solarwatt is to make 10% of its staff redundant by the end of the year in order to mitigate what it calls market turbulence. The company has blamed the restructuring on
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:trade war
Energy prices in China half those in the United States and Europe
China, with 240 GW installed by 2023, is managing to keep electricity prices relatively low and stable compared with Europe and the United States, which are suffering from an increasing reduction in their electricity prices.
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:industrial strategy
BP to buy Lightsource BP
Energy company BP will take full ownership of solar and wind energy developer Lightsource BP. This will happen once an agreement has been reached by mid-2024.
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:capacity increase/decrease, silicon mono/multi
There is too much excess silicon production capacity
Following the commissioning of silicon manufacturing plants in China, Bernreuter Research predicts fierce competition in the sector in 2024, which will drive many Chinese producers
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:industry, industrial strategy
RWE plans to triple its renewable energy installations by 2030
German utility RWE plans to invest €55 billion between 2024 and 2030 to install 65 GW of renewable energy. It currently operates 35 GW
L R AS Published on Saturday 25 November 2023 - n° 467 - Categories:industrial strategy
Fraunhofer ISE and Heckert Solar have developed a 400 W residential solar panel
Fraunhofer ISE and Heckert Solar have developed a 400 W residential solar panel with half M12 cells and an efficiency of 20.5%. This production
AS Published on Saturday 25 November 2023 - n° 467 - Categories:setting up abroad
First robot to inspect solar power plants
Spain's Arbórea Intellbird has developed its first autonomous civilian robot for inspecting large-scale solar power plants, with a range of thirty hours. Equipped with thermographic sensors
L R AS Published on Saturday 25 November 2023 - n° 467 - Categories:accord-cooperation-redemption
Norway's Statkraft acquires Spain's Enerfin
Norway's Statkraft has acquired Spanish renewable energy developer Enerfin for an estimated sum of
AS Published on Saturday 18 November 2023 - n° 466 - Categories:trade war
The trade war is starting. It will be merciless. Its outcome is not yet foreseeable.
Although 2023 has shown that end demand on the photovoltaic market continues to be strong, spot prices per watt have been quite the opposite. The first half of this year has shown what the consequences of an imbalance between supply and demand can be.