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Solarworld-headed manufacturer group EU Prosun said rival Solar Alliance for Europe (SAFE) is “twisting or simply ignoring” data from an analyst report to make it appear to support the latter’s position on the EU-China anti-dumping dispute.

SolarCity’s request that its Silevo modules be excluded from the scope of the US trade case against Chinese products has been rejected in a preliminary ruling made on Monday.

A decision on whether or not to include SolarCity’s Silevo products in the scope of trade duties on China has now been confirmed for 4 April.

According to SolarWorld’s 186-page annual report for 2015, and a presentation by Dr. Holger Neuhaus, Managing Director, SolarWorld Innovations GmbH at the inaugural PV CellTech conference held in Malaysia last week, high-efficiency products will be the key focus of its expanded manufacturing capacity and technology migrations in 2016.

SolarWorld has attributed a “low” probability to a negative outcome in its ongoing lawsuit with Hemlock Semiconductor in its 2015 annual report. Its release comes one day after Hemlock filed for summary judgement in the case.

A decision is due next week on whether or not SolarCity’s Silevo modules should be included in the scope of US trade duties on Chinese solar products.

PV module manufacturer SolarWorld has started producing its first bifacial Bisun modules at its US manufacturing facility in order to test their capability against standard modules using advanced p-type mono-PERC cell architecture.

Integrated PV module manufacturer REC Solar has reported PV module shipments of 1,159MW for 2015, compared to European headquartered rival, SolarWorld that had reported total ‘product’ shipments, of exactly the same figure.

German manufacturer SolarWorld has achieved 22.04% conversion efficiency in a PERC solar cell.

Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) has indirectly taken a major interest in PV equipment specialist centrotherm.