China’s Solar Wafer Prices Could Rise Further as Longi, Zhonghuan Fix Quake Damage Wei Zhongyuan China’s Solar Wafer Prices Could Rise Further as Longi, Zhonghuan Fix Quake Damage
(Yicai Global) May 26 The price of raw materials used in solar cells may increase further in China due to two recent earthquakes that affected two major monocrystalline silicon plants in the country’s northwest, according to experts.
Even if Longi Green Energy Technology and Zhonghuan Semiconductor say the damage is not majorly hurting production capacity, prices may rise, according to experts in the field at companies or brokerages.
The effects are predicted to flow downstream. Downstream solar cell makers, which have been under intense financial pressures lately, may have to slash production as raw materials get more expensive, they said.
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At least three persons were killed and 27 others injured after a series of earthquakes jolted southwest Earthquakes ’s Yunnan Province, officials said on Saturday.
164 students affected by earthquake resume classes at temporary shelters in Qinghai Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-23 20:54 Share CLOSE Students study at a temporary shelter in Maduo county of Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Northwest China s Qinghai province, May 23, 2021. A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Maduo county of Golog at 2:04 am Saturday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. A total of 164 students from a boarding school who were affected by the earthquake have resumed classes at temporary shelters. [Photo/Xinhua]
XINING A team dispatched by China s Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) arrived in the earthquake-hit Qinghai province in Northwest China to guide local rescue work.