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Posted by Michael Barker on 04.15.2013 | Read comments
According to research in our Marketbuzz report, global PV demand is expanding both geographically – as new regions begin to install PV at much lower prices – and in terms of scope, as more regions are installing at higher annual volumes. Compared to 2010, when only a handful of...
Posted by Michael Barker on 04.09.2013 | Read comments
Recent findings in two NPD Solarbuzz reports, covering the Middle East & Africa and Emerging Asia-Pacific & Central Asia, indicate that both of these areas are set for considerable growth in 2013 with annual demand projected to hit 1 GW in each region. While this...
Posted by Michael Barker on 04.08.2013 | Read comments
The PV industry is experiencing a period of oversupply and overcapacity which really started several years ago when that solar industries demand was growing very rapidly. There was a rush to get in and supply that growing demand.
The end market demand was growing on a double-...
Posted by Michael Barker on 04.08.2013 | Read comments
Trade disputes that are currently ongoing are major source of uncertainty for PV industry. They’re being pursued by a number of major countries and regions and are really approaching a stage where the PV industry is going to be facing trade disputes and trade barriers...
Posted by Michael Barker on 04.05.2013 | Read comments
“Marketbuzz addresses the oversupply situation by providing a lot of overview detail and detail in depth on the supply and demand chains. You can see what happened in 2012 as well as what’s going to happen over the next five years in terms of supply-demand...
