Solar panel prices hiked

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Solar panel prices hiked

Solar power equipment makers continued to lift prices this week as soaring polysilicon costs spread through the supply chain and threaten to slow clean energy deployment.

Tongwei Co. on Monday increased prices for solar cells by 3.2% to 4.1% depending on their size, while Longi Green Energy Technology Co. lifted wafer prices 3.3% to 4.3% Tuesday.

[Bloomberg]

 

[system32]

This increase has absolutely nothing/definitely not/unrelated to the guilty-until-proven-innocent law just passed by US on Xinjiang, which just happens to be the largest producer of poly-silicon a core component of PV panels.

USA: Senate passes bill to ban Xinjiang imports unless products proven free of forced labour
https://www.business-humanrights.or...-products-proven-not-made-with-forced-labour/

 

[Koosvanwyk]

This increase has absolutely nothing/definitely not/unrelated to the guilty-until-proven-innocent law just passed by US on Xinjiang, which just happens to be the largest producer of poly-silicon a core component of PV panels.

USA: Senate passes bill to ban Xinjiang imports unless products proven free of forced labour
https://www.business-humanrights.or...-products-proven-not-made-with-forced-labour/

Or maybe it is just the raw material price increase

 

[system32]

Or maybe it is just the raw material price increase

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Raw materials from Xinjiang?

 

[itareanlnotani]

Raw materials from Xinjiang?

Mining is a big one, and I don't mean Bitcoin, although there was quite a bit of that eg -

Commentary: How much Bitcoin comes from dirty coal? A flooded mine in China just spotlighted the issue

The recent accident showed just how fragile, and how environmentally damaging, the Bitcoin supply chain can be.

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