The solar industry supply and demand is expected to stabilize.NPDSolarbuzz market research institutions, according to the latest report as solar power device costs decline, the related manufacturers and the whole and the relationship between Supply and Demand into balance, the solar industry in 2014 from the Demand constraint market (Demand - constrainedMarket), into the typical Supply driven market (Supply - drivenMarket)
NPDSolarbuzz MichaelBarker senior analyst said that in recent years, the solar industry every year, the size of the affected by terminal application market deployment situation, the global estimate of the size of the market is through the accumulative total demand for countries to assess;However, by the end of 2014, solar market size will depend on the output of solar energy products and shipments, this is the standard supply driven market.
It is understood that in the past three years, solar module, system and the manufacturing cost has plummeted more than 50%, make part of the lack of competitiveness of the solar cell (PVCell) suppliers were eliminated, the market from 2010 in two hundred and fifty to reduce the number of manufacturers in 2013 to one hundred and fifty, this also let the market mechanism to the stable relationship between supply and demand.
In the past few years, the demand constraint market environment is the catalyst behind the solar industry capacity glut phenomenon, this not only reduces the capacity utilization, also let the solar industry in 2013 capital spending fell to eight years of low.
It is worth noting that the solar market in 2013 the main source of demand from Asia, especially China and Japan, and the two countries and two big demand in the world market;If coupled with the third largest market - the United States, the aggregate demand of the three major regional markets have accounted for 60% of the global solar power market.
Barker said further, looking at 2014, the regional market demand change, still have to put together in mainland China, Japan and the United States market observation, rather than only look at the three countries separate capacity demand, because, if there is any market in the three countries fall in demand for a certain period of time, is likely to lead to the demand of the other two countries follow growth, changes will affect the global market.
FinlayColville NPDSolarbuzz vice President said, the mainland China, Japan, the United States of the solar market features a flexible, innovative financing model and short-term demand will lead to positive policy;So for the solar system supplier, understand the dynamic changes of the supply chain, the three countries will be one of the most important subject in 2014.
