L R AS Published on Sunday 4 February 2024 - n° 474 - Categories:various PVs
Abolition of VAT on batteries in the UK, AAE in the USA in 2023
In brief from abroad: abolition of VAT on batteries in the UK, successful PV sales in Germany, AAE in the USA in 2023
The UK government has exempted battery energy storage systems (BESS) from 20% value added tax (VAT) from1 February.
L R AS Published on Sunday 4 February 2024 - n° 474 - Categories:various PVs
Company news: new Ingeteam inverters, TOPCon panel from Solitek, new microinverter from Enphase, Aiko in France, 580 W panel from Sharp
Company news: new Ingeteam inverters, TOPCon panel from Solitek, new microinverter from Enphase, Aiko in France, 580 W panel from Sharp
Spain's Ingeteam has unveiled four new three-phase hybrid inverters in a range of
L R AS Published on Tuesday 30 January 2024 - n° 473 - Categories:various PVs
Company news: financing at 3Sun and H2 Green Steel, GameChange plant, REC silicon plant sold, SolarEdge redundancies, Exasun bankrupt
Company news: financing for 3Sun and H2 Green Steel, GameChange plant, REC silicon plant sold, SolarEdge redundant, Exasun bankrupt
3Sun, a subsidiary of Italy's Enel, has secured €560 million in financing to increase its production capacity of bifacial heterojunction panels from 200 MW to 3 GW.
L R AS Published on Tuesday 30 January 2024 - n° 473 - Categories:various PVs
Panels in brief: from AEG and Trina Solar
Panels in brief: from AEG and Trina Solar
Germany's AEG is launching a range of ABC solar panels
AS Published on Saturday 20 January 2024 - n° 472 - Categories:Europe, trade war
The ESMC believes in competition with forced labour, not a general policy
The ESMC letter, signed by 37 European manufacturers, makes the link between forced labour in China and "unsustainably low prices".
AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:trade war
The gap between China's capacity and the rest of the world is growing even wider!
To break China's dominance in renewable energy, other countries would have to invest $700 billion in the mining and manufacturing sectors to develop their production capacity. This concerns supply chains
AS Published on Friday 12 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:trade war
The American company Auxin Solar relaunches legal proceedings against Chinese products
The initiator of the request for tariffs on imports of Chinese solar products in 2022, the American company Auxin Solar, is relaunching legal proceedings against the US Department of Commerce.
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:Germany, trade war
Solarwatt to make 10% of its staff redundant by the end of the year
German photovoltaic panel supplier Solarwatt is to make 10% of its staff redundant by the end of the year in order to mitigate what it calls market turbulence. The company has blamed the restructuring on
AS Published on Saturday 2 December 2023 - n° 468 - Categories:trade war
Energy prices in China half those in the United States and Europe
China, with 240 GW installed by 2023, is managing to keep electricity prices relatively low and stable compared with Europe and the United States, which are suffering from an increasing reduction in their electricity prices.
AS Published on Saturday 18 November 2023 - n° 466 - Categories:trade war
The trade war is starting. It will be merciless. Its outcome is not yet foreseeable.
Although 2023 has shown that end demand on the photovoltaic market continues to be strong, spot prices per watt have been quite the opposite. The first half of this year has shown what the consequences of an imbalance between supply and demand can be.
AS Published on Sunday 5 November 2023 - n° 464 - Categories:panels, various PVs
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L R AS Published on Sunday 8 October 2023 - n° 460 - Categories:trade war
Unsold panels: 46 GW by the end of 2022; 80 GW by the end of August; 100 GW by the end of 2023?
European warehouses now hold more than 80 GW of unsold solar panels. This figure doubled between mid-July and the end of August. It could reach 100 GW by the end of the year,
L R AS Published on Saturday 7 October 2023 - n° 460 - Categories:Germany, trade war
Germany is ready to fight to preserve its photovoltaic industry
Faced most immediately with competition from China, which is flooding the European market with low-cost solar panels, the German government is considering the possibility of imposing trade barriers on solar panels and components imported into Europe from China. This stance comes on the heels of a call from the
L R AS Published on Saturday 16 September 2023 - n° 457 - Categories:trade war, Europe
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AS Published on Monday 19 December 2022 - n° 429 - Categories:trade war
How to adapt to US anti-circumvention findings?
On1 December, the US Department of Commerce published its preliminary findings on the circumvention of tariffs on Chinese products. Prior to this decision, on 26 June 2022, the White House had announced