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A tight spot: Consequences of the multi-wafer shortage

Wafers shortage: Multicrystalline silicon wafers are currently in short supply across the solar landscape after years of overcapacity. Such market dynamics are prompting huge capacity expansion plans among leading wafer suppliers driving new rounds of investment production techniques that could boost efficiencies.

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Christian Roselund

12 Feb 2016

Any industry that grows as fast as solar PV has is bound to have growing pains, including times when capacity is not aligned with demand. The last few years have seen several price crashes, including the fall in prices for PV modules beginning in 2012, when far more manufacturing capacity came online than the market …

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