Yingli told investors it now expects to ship 3.3GW to 3.35GW of modules this year, down from the 3.6GW-3.8GW range it forecast in August – and even further below the up-to 4.2GW it was predicting in the early part of 2014.

If both forecasts pan out, even the upper range of that figure would leave Yingli behind Trina Solar, which yesterday said it expects to shift 3.61GW