Featured in Time for microgrids to go macro? – 11-2019

Module prices continue to slide

After China’s National Day holiday, demand started picking up at a slow pace, but the anticipated installation rush did not occur as expected, due to land and financing issues, as well as the return of winter. These factors will also delay the timing of more than 6 GW of capacity to the first half of next year. PV InfoLink has thus downwardly revised its estimates for installed capacity in the fourth quarter to 11.3 GW in China and 30 GW globally, bringing this year’s global demand forecast to below 120 GW.
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Unexpectedly low demand in China has impacted the recent state of the supply chain. It appears that the fourth quarter of the year may fall short of expectations, with only 29.8 GW of global demand, which is similar to the level in the second quarter. And the market might be dragged even lower than in …

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