Leading module supply firm Hanwha Q CELLS is to almost triple its supply agreement with Sunrun, becoming one of the developer’s main suppliers in 2016.
The European Commission (EC) has launched an expiry review of anti-dumping measures in the European Union, effectively guaranteeing the minimum import price for a further year at least.
Turkey has proposed changes to ownership rules for the commercial solar segment in a move that could put off large international investors, according to an industry member.
November was a bumper month for PV capacity expansion announcements, with the big-six Silicon Module Super League players once again in the headlines, writes Mark Osborne.
Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE has made a modest, 70-panel installation of new crystalline PV cell and module technologies produced by the institute on the outside of one of its laboratories.
The big-six Silicon Module Super League (SMSL) members face manufacturing pressures over technology migration meaning big advances may not happen in 2016, writes Finlay Colville.
In only the last two quarters of 2015, PV module shipments and full-year guidance from the six ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) players has changed significantly. Mark Osborne reveals the manufacturers set to take the top spots this year.
Struggling ‘Silicon Module Super League’ member Yingli Green Energy has missed shipment guidance for the third quarter and will take a non-cash impairment charge of US$581.3 million on long-lived manufacturing assets, due to lower utilisation rates.
India-based module manufacturer HHV Solar Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of renewable energy firm Swelect Energy, has ramped up its crystalline solar PV manufacturing line in Dabaspet, Bangalore, from 40MW to 100MW.
The big-six c-Si module suppliers in the solar PV industry today – collectively known now as the ‘Silicon Module Super League' – are forecast to take their collective market share of global module supply to almost 50% this, writes Finlay Colville.
