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US to impose a steep antidumping height on battery material from China On Thursday, the United States unveiled provisional anti -dumping rights of 93.5 percent on the import of an important battery component from China, after looking at a petition about this. The final provisions regarding tasks on graphite are expected at the beginning of December, according to the US Commerce Department. The investigation came after a petition from the American active anodia material producers, an ad-hoc coalition including American graphite producers, at the end of last year. Graphite is an important raw material that is used in making anodes…
The Spanish government kicked off its first schedule access to 3,681 MW at eight transmission nodes in six regions, aimed at areas with large-scale industrial demand. July 18, 2025 Pilar Sánchez Molina Image: Deon Fosu, Unsplash By PV Magazine Spain The Ministry of Spain for ecological transition and the demographic challenge (Miteco) has launched its first tender to allocate schedule capacity to eight electricity transmission nodes in Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country. The total access capacity is 3,681 MW and corresponds to junctions in which important industrial developments have submitted requests. These grid points are…
Standard Solar announced that it works with Wattch, a provider of subsequent generation of cloud -based energy monitoring, intelligence and control solutions. Strengthening perceptibility and shipability is a movement that can work more efficiently, adapt to evolving market conditions and meets the increasing operational requirements of a dynamic energy market. According to the agreement, Standard Solar migrates around 370 MW from its existing portfolio to the Wattch platform and uses Wattch’s hardware, software and services to support additional developments in the field of solar and storage in the coming years. “We worked together with Wattch because of their dedication on…
The adoption of the inflation reduction law was the starting gun for the race to build up the domestic supply chain for the solar and storage industry. The advanced production production -credit (45x) offers incentives to American companies that make solar panels, inverters, energy storage systems, tracking components and more, and it causes a revival of production at home. Not only were more companies encouraged to make the product in their own country, but they could sell those credits for in advance cash to invest in their activities, something that many companies have benefited from. Production on the Solar Panel…
When the American government was investigating whether solar cells and panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were dumped on the American market in 2024 as a result of which the American manufacturers could not compete, the activities in those countries quickly worked elsewhere. Soon imports from India, Indonesia and Laos started rattling. The American industry has taken note. Nowadays, a new antidumping/countervailing obligation (AD/CVD) investigation has been submitted by the Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade In the three new countries. The American International Trade Court (ITC) and the Commerce (DOC) department officially have a series of rates…
This week, women in Solar+ Europe give a voice to Jodie Brush, Communications & Public Affairs Manager at Verbund Green Power Iberia. She says that real progress happens when everyone is involved. “Gender equality is not just a problem of women. Men must be invited to participate in the conversation, listen, learn, to challenge their own assumptions and become allies,” she says. July 18, 2025 Women in solar energy+ Europe Like each sector, the industry of the renewable energy is deep in diversity. I work in an industry that is historically dominated by men, but that is precisely why I…
Today, the trade department has unveiled its provisional antidumping (AD) rates in the business with battery ano material from China. Almost every significant battery exporter to the United States, including Canadian Zonne -Zon, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, SAFT, Samsung and Tesla, received an AD speed of 93.5%. The China-wide rate (for those who have not responded to the commerce petition request) is 102.72%. A complete list of exporters and producers can be under the tariff order Found here. The AD rates are far below 800%+ rates requested by the submitter American Active Anode Material Producers (AAAMP). Commerce has also relatively…
In a new weekly update for PV -MagazineOpis, a Dow Jones company, offers a quick look at the most important trends in the global PV industry. July 18, 2025 Opis According to the Opis Solar Weekly Report released on July 15, the China Mono Premium-OPISs benchmark price rating for mono-grade polysilicon that is specifically used in N-type Ingot production for the inland Chinese market for the inland Chinese market-with 6.21% week-on week, with a CNY 36.350 0.076/w. In combination with the movement, FOB China saw prices for N-type M10 and G12 waffles also remarkable increases. On July 15 the prices…
The Swiss analysis company Pexapark says that the Market for European Power Achterne Agreement (PPA) became strong in June after a bad result in May, with solar accounting for the majority of the newly signed capacity. July 18, 2025 Patrick Jowett European developers have signed 20 PPAs a total of 1,429 MW in June, according to the latest report from the Swiss research agency for renewable energy sources Pexapark. The result is an increase of 40% in the number of deal compared to the month prior and an increase of 700% in revealed volumes. Pexapark says that the result marks…
In the years since the inflation reduction law was adopted, the American sunbouw has seen consistent annual growth on both commercial and the Nut markets; The last to load forward and of solar energy makes the largest source of new electricity on the American grid in recent reports. With the passage of HR1, or the only big wonderful account act, the subsidies that reinforce the American solar output are planned for sunset with a considerably shorter runway than previously granted by the IRA. However, the fine details of these decreasing stimuli are still moving. Large-scale solar ITC changes in HR1…