The new entrants are examples of a green-energy spending binge in China that is fueling the country''s rapid build-out of renewable energy while also creating a glut of solar components that is rippling through the industry and stymying attempts to build such manufacturing elsewhere, particularly in Europe.
This photo taken on Jan. 4, 2024 shows solar panels installed on the roof of a residential house in Berlin, Germany. Ren Pengfei/Xinhua/Getty Images Chinese manufacturers are making so many solar panels, it's causing a global glut. Solar panels have become so cheap that some people are using them to line fences.
Around two-fifths of global production of polysilicon, the main raw material for solar panels, comes from the western region of Xinjiang, where the Chinese government has been accused by human rights groups of forcing Muslim minorities to work at factories in detention camps. Beijing rejects carrying out any human rights abuses in the region.
Prices on the spot market have already fallen by half in 2023 and are likely to extend decline by another 40% by 2028, the agency added. China's hold on the solar-panel market is now in a state of oversupply, which means manufacturers elsewhere — such as the US and Europe — are unable to compete effectively.
The 380 GW of new PV installations expected throughout the world in 2023 could be produced entirely without silicon from China's Xinjiang region. Modules in 2019-20 were mostly up to around 350 W and based on monocrystalline PERC technology.
The amount of Chinese photovoltaic cells in storage was enough to cover Europe’s overall annual demand twice over, it said. Chinese companies had now taken “a dumping stance in the European market”, offering two-year contracts with prices “consistently undercutting” spot market prices.
You might think that’s a sign that the entire industry is headed for a crash, but previous high-tech revolutions offer reasons for optimism. Solar panels are ultimately semiconductors, and they share a lot of similarities with the mainstream chip industry. Capital spending is colossal, and rapidly becomes obsolete as the state of the art moves on.
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The new entrants are examples of a green-energy spending binge in China that is fueling the country''s rapid build-out of renewable energy while also creating a glut of solar components that is rippling through the industry and stymying …
China, by far the world''s largest producer of solar panels and components, will likely face a glut of the photovoltaic (PV) materials next year as recent capacity expansions up and down the supply chain look set to outstrip demand, according to some analysts.
In May 2023, Longi President Li Zhenguo warned that China''s PV industry was on the verge of a glut, a view many dismissed at the time. Lü said that since most companies made substantial …
This "significant supply glut" has already created an environment of low panel prices and led to a stockpiling of imported Chinese modules in Europe and the US, the IEA said. The organization said some 90 GW of modules were sitting in warehouses in the European Union at the end of 2023 with a further 45 GW in the US, though some manufacturers ...
European spending on solar power components had increased from €6 billion in 2016 to more than €25 billion ($41.8 billion) last year, leading to a glut of Chinese solar panels that were now...
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