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Soaring Solar Costs Lead Chinese Group to Stop Publishing Prices
- Industry group stops publishing weekly polysilicon prices
- Prices at 10-year high are increasing cost of solar panels
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China’s silicon industry group stopped releasing prices of a key solar material after surging costs threatened the country’s ambitious renewables plan and led to a government crackdown.
The China Silicon Industry Association suspended posting weekly prices of polysilicon as supply chain costs increase and “shock” the stability of the solar industry, the group said Thursday. The association did not specify when it will resume releases.