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Will China’s ‘double carbon’ and ‘dual control’ policies drive demand for solar?

Nov 23, 2021

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... read more

Towards a subsidy-free era for China’s solar PV market

Nov 19, 2019

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... read more

PV Tech Power, Feb 2018: The hungry dragon: explaining China’s 50 GW + PV market in 2017

Feb 20, 2018

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... read more

PVTech, Dec 17, 2017: The Hungry Dragon: Explaining China’s 50GW+ PV market in 2017

Dec 18, 2017

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. read more

The Hungry Dragon: Explaining China’s 50 GW+ PV Market in 2017

Dec 18, 2017

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 –... read more

How Chinese Policies Can Control the Global PV Market

May 16, 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... read more

Implications of the EU–China anti-dumping settlement

Aug 27, 2013

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... read more

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