supply chain

Global Solar Council offers policy recommendations to increase the installed solar capacity and address barriers slowing its deployment.

The ISO has granted DMEGC Solar its ISO 14067 certification, to hold it to high standards of carbon footprint reporting.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has initiated investigations into solar cell imports from Southeast Asia under the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs.

An increase in solar module prices is “hard to imagine unless there is a massive shortage in supply”, according to PV Tech head of research Finlay Colville.

The European Commission (EC) has announced its European Solar Charter, a package intended to support domestic European solar manufacturing.

Reshoring the critical manufacturing steps in the solar supply chain intersects with environmental considerations, writes NexWafe CEO Davor Sutija.

The report identified access to capital and upfront investment as the key method by which the government could support the expansion of a PV manufacturing industry in Australia.

The White House must “act immediately to solve the urgent issues interfering with investment in domestic solar manufacturing”, according to a statement from the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America (SEMA) coalition.

The US secretary of the Treasury, Janet L. Yellen, has said the US “wouldn’t want to rule out” protective trade measures to combat overcapacity of solar PV and energy storage manufacturing in China.

The EU has approved a law which will require companies to audit their supply chains for environmental damage and human rights abuse.