The Smartphone Market The emerging markets are rapidly shifting towards smartphones leaving behind feature phones, with more than half of the mobile phones being sold today being smartphones. This is not a small number at more than 500 million annually. The growth is being primarily driven by the low cost emerging markets such as India, […]
Saudi Arabia wants to invest big bucks in solar power plants, but the country’s progress has been abysmally slow. The country which has one of the largest oil reserves in the world and is one of the biggest exporters of oil faces a population explosion. Saudi Arabia is blessed with billions of barrels of crude […]
Chinese Solar Market dominates globally The Chinese solar industry has been growing at a tremendous pace in the last 5-6 years and has now come to dominate the world in almost all parts of the supply chain. The western countries have been decimated and most of them have become marginal players. The European companies which […]
100% Indian duties on Chinese Imports The Indian solar manufacturers have been pushing the Indian government hard, to impose anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese and USA made solar cells and modules for a long time now. However, a very strong lobby of solar developers and utilities have prevented such an outcome till now. The […]
The world’s largest solar wafer manufacture GCL Poly is looking to further expand its already giant capacity. The company reported great results seeing a very large increase in the sales of both solar wafers and polysilicon as the global solar demand increased by 30%. The company which has around 12 GW of solar wafer capacity […]
German Solar self consumption faces problems Germany is facing hurdles in its solar energy industry, as the government plans to impose a green energy levy common to all retail consumers of electricity on self-consumption on PV generated electricity. Germany has been a pioneer in solar energy having single-handedly sparked a revolution in solar energy through […]