Featured in Triumph for our times – 01-2016

A return to market-driven pricing

Global manufacturing: There is a likelihood that a substantial supply-demand imbalance may reappear in 2017 following capacity expansions to take place this year. EnergyTrend’s Corrine Lin investigates the pricing trends, manufacturing announcements and draws some conclusions as to what we can expect from 2016.

After a long period of stagnation, the PV market heated up again at the end of 2015. Multicrystalline silicon wafer and cell prices started to increase over the third quarter of 2015, and the supply shortage in the following fourth quarter has helped maintain this price uptrend to the beginning of 2016. Also, after going …

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