Three major trends in the photovoltaic market in 2020

After the global market experienced turbulence in 2018, it has begun to stabilize since 2019. Looking forward to 2020, judging from the three major trends in the global photovoltaic market evaluated by EnergyTrend, a new energy research center under the State Consulting Group, the market conditions continue to improve, and the industry will gradually stabilize and mature in the continuous changes.

Trend 1: Overseas layout in 2019, steady progress in 2020

The most discussed topic in 2019 is the rise of large-sized silicon wafers. Because large-sized silicon wafers involve a comprehensive change of the downstream cell and component manufacturers (that is, replacement of equipment), most battery plant production lines have just completed PERC transformation and upgrade in 2019. There are no plans to update equipment in 2020. In addition to large-scale silicon wafer manufacturers expanding their own downstream module production lines for their own use, looking ahead to 2020, the size of silicon wafers will show three strong positions: M2, G1 and M6 go hand in hand. Module technology is in a state of controversy: Any technology that can quickly increase wattage is a good technology. 9BB and half-chips continue to become mainstream, and 72-chip module-volume products continue to move towards 450W.