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The global price of silver has continued to rise, with the average price increasing to RMB8,211/kilogram (US$32.03/ounce), a historical high.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest US$71 million into specific solar manufacturing projects across the value chain.

The China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association's latest round of polysilicon and wafer prices continue to fall down.

Chinese solar manufacturer DAH Solar has started construction of a 10GW vertically integrated solar plant in China.

Solar manufacturer SEG Solar has signed a land utilisation agreement to build a 5GW vertically integrated PV manufacturing plant in Indonesia.

PV Tech Premium explores whether the US will be able to bring solar wafer and polysilicon supply onshore in the current market climate.

Global module prices are unlikely to fall much further and could begin to stabilise, the chairmen of two of China’s largest PV manufacturers, Trina Solar and JinkoSolar, have said.

Future heterojunction technology (HJT) solar cells may require significantly less silver to produce, according to findings from researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).

The price of polysilicon continues to decline, in some cases below production costs, prompting a wait-and-see attitude within the PV industry.