56% rise is a blow for governments keen to promote adoption of renewable energy Explosions last month at a plant in China have pushed up the price of polysilicon, the raw material for solar panels, raising costs for governments keen to stimulate the use of renewable energy. Prices for polysilicon have risen by over 50 […]
Polysilicon Industry Awaits Certainty on US-China Trade Deal
U.S. producers of the solar feedstock offer cautious optimism after the trade agreement includes polysilicon. The trade deal signed between the United States and China this week brought a jolt of positivity to U.S. polysilicon manufacturers, who have for years struggled to stay competitive while tariffs hampered access to the Chinese market, which accounts for […]
REC Silicon May Sell Montana Facility
The polysilicon company draws another bad hand in the trade war. A cash-strapped REC Silicon announced Thursday it’s considering the sale of its Butte, Montana facility, which produces silane gas for use in semiconductors. Though the company hasn’t finalized a decision — REC spent months warning of the shutdown of its polysilicon plant in Washington […]
The Status of US Solar Manufacturing, One Year After Tariffs
On Tuesday, JinkoSolar will officially open its Jacksonville, Florida solar module factory. The Chinese company announced that plant in January of last year, roughly a week after the Trump administration unveiled its final tariffs on crystalline silicon solar cells and modules. It was the first of a string of such announcements as foreign manufacturers stared […]
Struggling US Polysilicon Producers Are a Forgotten Casualty in the Solar Trade War With China
Polysilicon production, once dominated by America, has been taken over by China. It’s a direct consequence of tariffs and failed negotiations In January, Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office next to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and delivered a verdict thesolarindustry had anticipated for months: A 30 percent tariff would be levied on imported […]