Featured in Time for fresh concepts – 04-2011

Acceptable lead times

Lead times: The worldwide photovoltaics market is building up more and more oversupply. The omnipresent capacity expansions are starting to hit the market. Oversupply is expected to peak in the next quarter.

Reported PV oversupply continues to progress despite strong pull-in to Italy, a market that now appears to be in jeopardy. The European market oversupply increased to 10.9 percent in January from 6.6 percent in December. This has been the trend since the end of October 2010 and it is getting steeper. It is partly due …

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