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First Solar: Initial moves away from thin film?
Global thin-film panel producer First Solar, recently delivered its full year results for 2012. Principal Analyst at IHS, Stefan de Haan, provides commentary on the company’s announcement...
Date:11th April 2013

USA Anti-Dumping Tariffs – What Will Change?
The industry has now had a chance to take stock of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s announcement that it will impose an import tariff on PV cells, or PV modules that contain cells,...
Date:30th May 2012

New Arrivals to the PV Inverter Market
Inverter shipments reached an almost unbelievable 26 GW in 2011, according to preliminary results from IMS Research’s Quarterly PV Inverter Tracker. This impressive result for inverter...
Date:11th April 2012

PV Module Costs and Prices – What is Really Happening Now!?

UK Government on Solar Back Foot - Tariff Confusion continues

Could PV Installations Really Have Reached 26 GW in 2011?

UK PV Module Price Watch - Supply Chain Prices Respond to Feed-in Tariff Chaos

BP Exit Solar Market as Industry Margins Evaporate

Chinese Module Suppliers See Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain

Will the Future of Microinverters Match the Expectations of Suppliers?

PVSEC 2011 - Another Tradeshow, Another Drop in Module Prices?

Where is this 10 GW of Module Inventory?

PV inverter market down in 2011 but growth still possible, for some at least…

Cloudy Horizon at Intersolar 2011

UK PV Conference: Depressing, Downbeat and Dead?

The Wait Is Over For Italy

2010 Shows the Strengths and the Weaknesses of the PV Inverter Industry

2010 on Track to Be a Record Year for PV Inverters; Will 2011 Derail Expectations?

PV Module Costs and Prices – What is Really Happening?