Featured in Turkey – 04-2014

Silicon switch

Wafer and ingot production equipment: The supply-demand gap in the PV industry is closing, pushing up prices of polysilicon and wafers, with wafer manufacturers turning to high efficiency technologies and techniques to reduce production costs.

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pv magazine

02 Apr 2014

A report published in March by IHS Research suggests that much-anticipated next generation PV technologies are going to be in demand as early as this year, as solar expenditures rebound. Indeed, if the announcements of several major wafer producers and equipment suppliers are anything to go by, a spring-like energy seems to be rustling through …

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