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This blog contains the concluding part of my Tales from Taiwan feature, with the first blog - Tales from Taiwan Part 1: more capacity comes online, but not in Taiwan - appearing on PV-Tech earlier this week.

After a week in Taiwan, overlapping with the PV Taiwan exhibition and conference in Taipei last week, my main takeaway is the scale of new capacity that is confirmed to be coming online over the next 3-6 months, no matter what is happening today regarding supply levels and end-market demand. This and other conclusions from my week in Taiwan are covered in two blogs this week on PV-Tech.

EDF Energies Nouvelle and 'Silicon Module Super League' (SMSL) member Canadian Solar will collaborate on the 191.5MW Pirapora I project, with the latter selling 80% of its stake in the facility.

Leading ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member JinkoSolar said its founder and chairmen, Xiande Li would purchase a major share it the downstream PV power plant business, Jinko Power for US$250 million.

‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar said that its recently launched 72-cell 1500V multicrystalline modules would be deployed at two planned PV power plants in Australia with a cumulative capacity of 47MWp.

New research undertaken by the in-house research team at Solar Media Ltd. reveals that 2017 is expected to be the year that Longi Silicon Materials (incorporating its subsidiary LERRI Photovoltaic Technology) finally moves into the upper echelon of solar PV manufacturers.

GCL Systems Integration (hereafter ‘GCL’) has now been officially inducted into PV Tech’s exclusive Silicon Module Super League (SMSL) for 2016, with our team having previously alluded to aggressive capacity additions by the company in 2015.

Recent shipment guidance from two leading members of the ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL), Trina Solar and JinkoSolar highlighted that the US solar PV market in 2016 was expected to show considerable growth but raised concerns over the possibility of a module oversupply situation when compiling a list of suppliers with their own US ambitions.