The global PV markets focus at the Asia and North America region. China’s enormous policy goals are paled by abandoning PV trend and late repayment of subsidies. Despite the new Trump government's strong support for traditional energy, the PV industry remains rosy as long as the existing ITC remains intact. 2MW or greater systems are subject to bidding after sharp cut over FIT rate in Japan. EU members, which used to lead PV markets, e.g. Germany and Italy, are now suffering from contracting PV markets, though they still enjoy steady demands. Thanks to slow or even stagnant economy, the PV markets are expected to grow modestly except countries with definitive policy and aggressive installation goal including China and India. The world market is projected to reach USD97.21 billion with 79.5GW installed in 2017.
Amid increasingly fragmented markets and over supply, industry players continue fighting over prices both upstream and downstream. Expected strong demands in the first half of 2017 can be found nowhere and the markets remain sluggish. Domestic manufacturers look better to reject orders with overly low prices. Output of the domestic PV industry in 2016 is expected to decline 4.7% in 2017 to NTD172.88 billion.
I、Industry scope
II、Industry review – 2016
III、Trend of emerging product technology
IV、Changes in competitiveness of domestic industry
V、Industry outlook – 2017
Figure 1 The global PV industry
Figure 2 Scope of wind power industry
Figure 3 Global market size fuel cells--2015~2019
Figure 4 Global market size biofuel--2015~2019
Table 1 The global emerging energy industry output value 2015~2016
Table 2 Trend of domestic new energy industry output--2015~2016
Table 3 Global market of silicon cell by Taiwan--2015~2019