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Differences in wafer and module specifications, which have bedevilled solar developers in recent years, could now be narrowing.

With China’s latest pandemic clampdown exacerbating existing costs for raw materials and shipping, big annual rises in solar cell and module shipments added up to a more than 91% fall in income from operations in just three months.

Big numbers from polysilicon and cell maker Tongwei and the latest government statistics indicate the nation is in the midst of a flood of solar capacity additions at the moment.

The Canadian Solar chief repeated his belief the trend of ever-cheaper solar panels has come to an end and revealed, at the online BNEF event, his company is set to launch a 700 W module.

The company today told pv magazine it did not reduce any of its PV module prices in the July-to-September period.

The former has committed to invest more than $70 million into a 100,000-ton polysilicon production line in Leshan that will then supply it with 30,000 tons of its output annually.

The German company will sell 70,000 tons of its product to the module maker over the course of a five-year contract.

There is also news of a 1.1 GW central inverter procurement contract, a pending IPO for solar cell player Runergy, and a $700 million-plus solar glass supply contract.

The Jinko Power unit of the solar manufacturer is planning a huge hybrid solar and wind project and China Energy Engineering is also making, slightly more modest, plans for generation capacity, as poly maker GCL continued its great PV project sell-off.

The two big solar players are preparing to list big slices of their business on the STAR market tech board.