In January, the Photovoltaics Institute Berlin (PI Berlin) published a white paper suggesting the quality of production among PV manufacturers has improved in recent years. The study said quality was higher for large-scale manufacturers, particularly high in Asia, with ......[More]

REC Silicon plans to suspend operations at its Moses Lake polysilicon production facility in the USA from March 1, “unless trade negotiations between China the United States yield tangible indications that REC Silicon’s access to markets in China will be restored, or ot......[More]

USITC MAKES DETERMINATION IN FIVE-YEAR (SUNSET) REVIEW CONCERNING CRYSTALLINE SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS MODULES FROM CHINA The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that revoking the existing antidumping countervailing duty orders on imports of c......[More]

The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), part of India’s Ministry of Commerce & Industry, recommended the duty on ‘textured, tempered – coated or uncoated – solar glass’ imported from Malaysia after Borosil Glass, the only domestic producer of solar glass, file......[More]

China witnessed an 18% fall in new PV capacity last year, according to figures announced by the nation’s PV industry association today, but that amounted to a better-than-expected performance from the sector after the government announced a plan to scale back its costly......[More]

Italy’sMinistryofEconomicDevelopment(MISE)issuedthecountry’snewNationalIntegratedPlanforClimateEnergy2030,whichhasprovidedmoreclarityontherenewableenergytargetslaidoutintheenergystrategyfortheperiod2020-2030–theStrategiaEnergeticaNazionale–definedbythepreviousgovernment......[More]