Japanese Solar Boom The Japanese solar market has been booming in the last year, thanks to a very generous feed in subsidy being given by the government. This has led to investors pouring money into the solar farm market with a massive 400 MW plant being planned by a German firm. Like other solar booms, […]
Foxconn & GCL together in China The world’s biggest solar wafer producer GCL has tied up with electronic OEM giant Foxconn to build the largest solar power plant in China. GCL is going to supply solar wafers which will be processed by Foxconn to solar cells and assembled into solar PV panels. Around 1 million […]
Sharp strikes a deal with Hon Hai Sharp Industries is in a very bad shape losing billions of dollars last year as its TV and solar panel business floundered in the face of heightened global competition from Korean and Chinese players. The high cost of its domestic manufacturing base and the rising yen led to […]
Chinese Economy China is one of the biggest mysteries for investors and economists with most data emanating from China rated suspect even by the Chinese leaders themselves. Therefore people are equally divided in saying that China will grow at the same double digit rates while others predict a massive crash. The more knowledgeable analysts like […]
Sharp Solar Panels There have been hundreds of solar bankruptcies in the last couple of years as solar panel prices have gone down by almost 65% and ASPs have approached the COGs of the lowest cost solar panel manufacturers. However the big Japanese solar panel manufacturers have remained insulated from this wave of failures as […]