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“Multi and mono are like brothers”

The growth of monocrystalline PV’s market share was one of the big trends in the global industry in 2018. But it is all part of a natural technology cycle between mono and multi, argues Canadian Solar CEO Shawn Qu.

By

Jonathan Gifford

12 Mar 2019

Image: Canadian Solar

pv magazine: Canadian Solar has had a strategy to embrace multicrystalline PV, including black silicon. Does the current increase in market share of mono make you rethink that strategy at all? Shawn Qu: I have been in the PV industry for 23 years, so I have seen several cycles. When I first started, the whole …

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