Among the top five solar cell factories in the world in 2005, Sharp and other Japanese factories accounted for 4 seats, but as the low-cost grab market in China and South Korea, in 2016 the world's top five plants (in terms of shipments), a Japanese factory No.
The report said that in order to build a profitable business model, the Japanese solar cell plant to speed up the downsizing.Sharp plans in the spring of 2018 will be responsible for solar cell research and development, maintenance, overseas business, hundreds of employees transferred to the sales subsidiary Sharp Energy Solutions Panasonic, Kyocera plan to reduce the scale of production.
Sharp consolidated its solar cell business in 2016 (up to the end of March 2017) with a revised contract for silicon purchase prices after the company consolidated its contract with Hon Hai in August 2016, except for its revenue for the year Only 103.6 billion yen, only about a quarter of the peak period (2013).
Panasonic solar cell business for the first time into a loss in 2016. At present, Panasonic production of solar cell core components' (solar cell power generation components) of the dichromatic plant has been discontinued, Shimane factory capacity utilization continued to slump in charge of solar panel assembly The Shiga Plant for Operations is also planning to discontinue production in 2017 (until the end of March 2018).
Japan Solar Power Association (JPEA) statistics released on November 22 pointed out that the previous quarter (July to September 2017) Japan's total solar cell shipments (domestic demand + exports; refers to the module shipments, the same below) than In the same quarter of 2016, a 24% drop to 1,388MW was recorded, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of decline. JPEA pointed out that Japan's solar cell shipments in the previous quarter accounted for 38% of overseas companies (overseas companies' market share).
Domestic demand for solar cell shipments in the previous quarter plunged 23% from the same period in 2016 to 1,280MW, plunging for the ninth quarter of the decade.
