Featured in Racing towards high performance – 06-2019

Polysilicon goes west

Slower demand from China in 2018 meant a bumpy ride for polysilicon producers worldwide. But the biggest players remain committed and are taking advantage of low electricity rates in western China to bring huge new capacities online, giving the market yet another shake-up. pv magazine caught up with polysilicon market analyst Johannes Bernreuter, Head of Bernreuter Research, for a look at the latest upstream developments.

By

Mark Hutchins

04 Jun 2019

Johannes Bernreuter is Head of Bernreuter Research. He founded the company in 2008 to analyze polysilicon manufacturers, market trends, and technologies | Image: Wilhelm Breuer

How have polysilicon prices developed so far in 2019? What are the drivers behind this?There has been a price slump in the first quarter, which some would attribute to oversupply. The interesting conclusion for me is that the actual increase of polysilicon supply in China, if you take domestic production and imports together, wasn’t that …

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