Featured in Gas busters – 09-2020

Hot summer – hotter fall?

From mid-July to early August, prices fell across the board – perhaps for the last time this year, given recent indications that the slide will soon come to an end. Most PV manufacturers have either announced price increases in the range of a few cents per watt for the fourth quarter, or have already released adjusted price lists. But anybody who thinks that they can still buy cheap modules in unlimited quantities for short-term delivery is in for a disappointment, writes Martin Schachinger of pvXchange.com. This year there has been no summer lull.

In Germany at least, the pace of new PV construction has continued unabated in recent months. According to recent surveys, the 52 GW upper limit once set by the German federal government for state-funded systems would already have been reached, but fortunately the scare was eliminated before it came to that. Now that the handbrake …

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