The Eu-China Trade War We have been writing continuously about the global solar trade wars, covering all the countries involved. Europe started the biggest anti dumping case against China. The German solar panel maker Solarworld, complained against super cheap imports of solar modules from China to the EU worth 21 billion euros, under a group called ProSun. The EU-China solar spat […]

CDB lents $44 million to CSIQ Canadian Solar sought a $44 million loan from the China Development Bank to finance its project in China. It is a financing agreement for the construction of  a 30MW solar project in the western part of China. Canadian Solar aims at becoming the world leader in PV provider with over 50% […]

1) $100 Million Solar Supply Agreement signed between Yingli Green Energy (YGE) and DuPont to build a solar power plant in China. YGE closed at $2.79 on June 5th, down by $0.16 from its previous day close. 2) Electric Cars to achieve gross profit margin levels close to that of Porsche, CEO of Tesla Motors (TSLA) claims. 3) Solar Financing […]

Neo Solar and Del Solar Merger Consolidation in the global solar industry continues at an accelerated pace with companies exiting the solar business, bankruptcies being announced, takeovers by government and private companies. Now two of the largest Taiwanese solar companies have decided to merge. Neo Solar being one of the fastest growing companies in Taiwan with its focus […]

MEMC to SunEdison MEMC – the world’s leader in silicon wafer manufacturing has now changed the company name to SunEdison. The shareholders approved of this change at the company’s annual meeting. SunEdison was a subsidiary of MEMC. US Polysilicon and Wafer Producer MEMC bought Sunedison which was one of the largest solar installers in 2008. Now MEMC is strongly expanding […]

German Solar Market and the rising Solar theft Germany is the world’s top PV installer, with a solar PV capacity of more than 32.3 GW as of December 2012. The German new solar PV installations increased by about 7.6 GW in 2012, and solar PV provided 18 TWh of electricity in 2011, about 3% of total electricity. Some market analysts […]