Our view on the latest developments in China.
Apricum Senior Advisor Moritz Sticher offered his expert insights for PV Magazine’s recent article on Malaysia’s plans to grant 4-year PPA extensions to bidders in large-scale solar tenders.
Apricum Senior Advisor Frank Haugwitz gives updates on another record year for China’s booming solar photovoltaic industry while outlining the recent government support plans.
Apricum Senior Advisor, Frank Haugwitz spoke to China Table about the nation’s ambitious plan to install 100 gigawatts of new solar capacity on public and private rooftops by the end of 2023.
One might expect that China’s recently announced emission-reduction policies would have only a positive impact for the solar industry, however, the effects are mixed. The subsequent power restrictions imposed on almost all provinces and regions have pushed up prices...
The rise and fall of feed-in tariffs By the end of 2018, only seven years after the introduction of a national feed-in tariff (FIT) support scheme in 2012, China was home to one third of the world’s cumulative photovoltaic capacity, with ~173 GW of cumulative PV...
Apricum Senior Consultant Meishi Tan's article "The hungry dragon: explaining China's 50 GW + PV market in 2017" was published in the February 2018 issue of PV Tech Power magazine. Read the article here. You can also download a free copy of the entire magazine here.
Apricum Senior Consultant Meishi Tan wrote this indepth analysis of China's enormous growth in PV installations in 2017 as a guest blooger PVTech.org. Read her article here.
At the beginning of 2017, the big question regarding solar in China was whether they could repeat the stunning ~35 GW performance of 2016. Yet, over the course of the year, the question transformed, quite surreally, to whether China would hit the 50 GW mark in 2017 –...
In recent months, we saw a flurry of widely diverging predictions on the 2017 global PV market demand – 85 GW from GTM, 79 GW from IHS and Bloomberg, and 74 GW from EnergyTrend – the key differentiating variable being China, the world’s largest market by far with its...
Agreement accelerates macro trends in PV industry Now that the dust has settled, it is time to have a closer look at the outcome of the recent trade dispute between the EU and China over alleged PV module price dumping. While the proposed anti-dumping measures...
