Featured in Double-edged sword – 11-2016

The new normal of low module prices

Module and cell prices: Rapid price declines have been the major trend in the latter stages of 2016. Undoubtedly the dynamic will have profound impacts across the market. pv magazine investigates the causes, the effects and the new normal of low-cost PV.

By

Christian Roselund

04 Nov 2016

At first, it was a trickle, but quickly it became a flood. Reports of impending module production overcapacity began to make their way into the pv magazine offices around the midway point of 2016. They were followed not long after by claims of rapidly falling cell and module prices. By September, it became apparent that things …

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