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Attention will also be given to the regional site selection changes as well as to the advanced manufacturing trends emerging in 2018. Finally, after five years of tracking capacity expansion plans, an overview of cumulative expansions, coupled to global solar demand and to capacity trends specifically in China, will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in 2018 were significantly impacted by major policy changes mid&#45;year in China. This paper looks in detail at the contrasting developments in the first half of the year, compared with the second half. Attention will also be given to the regional site selection changes as well as to the advanced manufacturing trends emerging in 2018. Finally, after five years of tracking capacity expansion plans, an overview of cumulative expansions, coupled to global solar demand and to capacity trends specifically in China, will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28002,"template":"","paywall-tags":[8671],"technical-papers-categories":[2932,2921],"class_list":["post-9961","technical-papers","type-technical-papers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","paywall-tags-premium","technical-papers-categories-fab-facilities","technical-papers-categories-photovoltaics-international-papers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.5 (Yoast SEO v25.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in 2018 - PV Tech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/technical-papers\/pv-manufacturing-capacity-expansion-announcements-in-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in 2018 were significantly impacted by major policy changes mid&#045;year in China. 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