With Europe moving swiftly to phase out its legacy feed-in tariffs (FITs), the US having imposed preliminary anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese modules, and new Asian demand centres still at an early stage of development, many analysts expected the global PV market to stagnate in 2012 – or perhaps even decline for the first time in recent memory.
But the outlook for 2012 installations is “rising continuously”, says Stefan de Haan, principal PV analyst at IHS iSuppli, with recent order reports from Taiwanese cell makers bolstering the newfound optimism.
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