Leading solar wafer companies like Renesola (SOL), GCL Poly Energy, SAS and others remain under pressure due to the below cost prices of solar wafers. The whole solar wafer industry saw a huge expansion during 2010 and 2011 along with the other parts of the supply chain. As solar wafer equipment prices came down, companies [...]
Dow Chemicals buy Nuvosun Materials giant Dow Chemicals has bought the entire equity stake in CIGs solar startup Nuvosun to bolster its solar shingles line up. Note Dow has made huge plans for its solar shingles product line, though the company has not managed to actualize those plans till date. The company has only now [...]
Polysilicon Prices The prices of polysilicon have gone up a bit in the last few months as poly producers have sharply reduced utilization to 50% or lower. With prices at $15/kg and costs of $30/kg, many of the smaller poly producers have just shut shop and left the industry. However the bigger players which account [...]
China has been bristling against the hostility in solar trade from major partners such as US and Europe. The dominance of the Chinese solar panel industry with almost 60% of the global demand has made other countries see red. Thousands of Western solar companies have closed, even as China keeps on adding solar capacity. The [...]
GCL Poly China based GCL Poly is the biggest solar wafer producer in the world. GCL Poly raised its wafer capacity almost 85% in 2011. The company’s strategy of setting up plants near its major customers landed it major deals and lower the cost in the supply chain. This Chinese company became one the biggest producers [...]
Polycrystalline silicon or Polysilicon (poly-Si or “poly”) is a material consisting of multiple small silicon crystals. Poly is highly pure form of silicon and is much costlier. Polycrystalline silicon can be as much as 99.9999% pure. Solar Use of Polysilicon (Solar Wafers and Ingots Raw Material) Once Polysilicon is produced, it has to be made [...]