ReneSola swallowed a $194.7m impairment charge associatedwith the plant – whose discontinuation was decided internally in September – draggingthe Chinese PV manufacturer to a net quarterly loss of $200m at a time whenmany of its rivals have regained profitability.

ReneSola began the year with year with two polysiliconplants in Meishan – known as Phase I and Phase II – and around 10,000 metrictonnes of production capacity.

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