PV solar panel manufacturing downturn to extend into 2026

For the past ten years, visibility on the ‘book’ part of the PV book-to-bill has become an invisible metric.

The PV industry is set for a humbling 2025, with the current manufacturing downturn expected to extend well into 2026.

Representing the second major PV manufacturing downturn of the past 20 years, this period of the industry’s evolution could nonetheless create an ideal environment for PV technology to take its next logical step forward to the final chapter of the single-junction c-Si cell architecture era.

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