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The shipment shuffle

2016 PV manufacturer shipments: Understanding the vagaries of the global solar market’s actual size and pressure points is a nontrivial undertaking. From headline GW-level installation figures through to regional cell capacities and actual inventory levels, getting a firm grasp of what is available to the market has never been more important.

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pv magazine

13 Apr 2017

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Manufacturer shipments of crystalline and thin film technologies grew by 38% in 2016 compared to 2015, reach 70 GWp last year. By contrast, in 2015 that figure was 50.9 GWp the previous year. This strong growth was due to the over-performance of China’s market for solar deployment installations, which grew by 130% over 2015 to …

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