Featured in The hunt for high efficiency – 06-2025

Solar’s unsustainable underbelly

Low module prices, persistent overproduction, wasteful packaging, excessively long supply and transport pathways, and a lack of reuse and repair practices are all unsustainable characteristics of the solar industry that have become entrenched, writes Martin Schachinger of pvXchange.com.

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pv magazine

11 Jun 2025

The recovery in module prices following the rapid decline in the second half of 2024 has again come to a standstill, with scant sign of movement in the last few weeks. Although some wholesalers have slightly raised prices for high-efficiency solar modules, signaling sluggish supply, the changes are too marginal to indicate a clear price …

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