Solar system installers, particularly in Germany, have moved back third-quarter 2010 installation projects due to uncertainty about solar module prices and installation costs, according...
Some Taiwan-based solar cell makers have raised price quotes or given verbal notification to customers that prices will hike in June, according to industry sources. In the last week...
Taiwan-based solar cell makers, while under the pressure of planned price hikes of solar wafers in June 2010, are also being requested by PV module makers to lower quotes to share...
Taiwan-based solar module makers could post losses in the second quarter due to solar cell shortage-induced price hikes and exchange rate volatility, according to industry sources.
Solar cell maker Motech Industry on April 29 announced it shipped 154MWp of solar cells in first-quarter 2010, up about 20% on quarter. Due to product price drops, revenues went down...
A surge of sales in Germany combined with plunging prices are set to boost solar demand in 2010, prompting iSuppli to upgrade its forecast of installations of PV systems in 2010.
Test and measurement instrument supplier Chroma Ate has announced revenues for February 2010 jumped 84% on year to NT$321 million (US$10 million). Revenues for the first two months...
Passive component maker Holy Stone has begun small-volume shipments of ceramic heat sink substrates and reportedly entered the supply chain of an US-based solar module maker. The...
AU Optronics (AUO) will participate in Solar Power International 2009, scheduled to be held from Oct. 27 to Oct. 29 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, US. The US market...
Leveraging its low-cost thin-film process, US-based First Solar is expected to surpass its crystalline competitors to become the world's largest producer of photovoltaic (PV) cells...
Taiwan handset PCB makers expect to see monthly revenues increase in the third quarter with smartphone products making significant contributions, but the growth momentum will only...
Jiangsu Aide Solar Energy Technology, an eastern China-based subsidiary of Taiwan-based rectifier diode maker PanJit International, is expanding its annual capacity of crystalline...
Taiwan-based makers of amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules have suffered operating losses because product prices have dropped to below US$2/watt, according...
Taiwan based solar model assembler Tynsolar suffered a large book loss in June 2009 due to a client returning already delivered PV modules. The loss amounted to more than the company's...
Much like the boom-to-bust IC industry in recent decades, manufacturers of solar cells and thin films have also had a difficult time matching investments for new production capacity...
