Month: July 2013

Berlin-Beijing’s argue about polysilicon is to be resolved

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China denied punitive tariffs on EU polysilicon imports as a sign of conciliation with Germany. 

The German Federal Ministry of Economics approved a report by German financial daily Handelsblatt that shows that German economics minister Philipp Rösler and Chinese minister of commerce Gao Hucheng came to an understanding regarding polysilicon imports.

In spite of the fact the everyone expected another move from China, for instance to deny European polysilicon imports, the two countries reached a settlement. This could be a first step up regarding a resolution of the trade dispute that grew in Europe’s PV industry.

In this year’s June, the European Commission, imposed anti-dumping tariffs of 11.8% on Chinese PV imports to Europe even though a large amount of EU states din not agree and neither did the European PV industry.

China has been thinking about imposing EU and U.S duties on polysilicon as well, but the new settlement shows that China has reached out towards Germany, Europe’s biggest polysilicon producer, which would have had a lot to suffer from the tariffs.
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 Roxana Moraru

The destiny of PV is in China and Japan’s hands

 

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45% of the world’s request for solar power is said to come from the double Asian marketsin the remaining of this year, as consultants predict. A record of over 45 GW is forecasted for 2013.

NPD Solarbuzz, a solar consultant, announced that the world overreliance by the PV industry on China and Japan will go up in the rest of 2013

The last report is predicting that the two Asian countries will be responsible for over 45% of global solar demand until 2014, with a record of 35 GW.

As Solarbuzz estimates Japan’s, China’s, Germany’s and U.S.A.’s requests for PV reached over 60% of the global demand.

Solarbuzz also points out the fact that PV market will rely on the two countries is not necessarily a good thing as Europe is set to supply less than 30% of PV request this year as opposed to 50% of the second half of 2013.

45 % of the 15 GW demand until now was for large scale utility and commercial ground mount, 20 % for residential rooftop and 35% was for non-residential rooftop and off-grid.

 Roxana Moraru