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Daily News Wrap-Up: MNRE to Fund Perovskite Solar Manufacturing Pilot Line

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) approved the continuation of its Renewable Energy Research and Technology Development program from the financial year...

July 22, 2026

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Parth Shukla

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Daily Wrap-up

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Other
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Silver Demand Forecast to Drop 19% in 2026 on Lower Solar Cell Loadings

Global silver demand from the photovoltaic sector is expected to decline by 19% year-over-year (YoY) to 151 million ounces in 2026. According to the World Silver Survey...

July 21, 2026

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Arjun Joshi

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Solar
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LONGi Switches to Copper from Silver in Solar Cell Production at 21 GW Plant

LONGi Green Energy has started commercial production at a 21 GW back-contact solar cell facility in China using copper-based metallization technology, replacing the use...

July 13, 2026

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B.S. Nagaraj

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Manufacturing

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Solar
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India Restricts Silver Bar Imports, Solar Manufacturers May Face Cost Pressure

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade has amended the import policy for certain silver bars, moving them from the Free category to Restricted with immediate effect....

May 19, 2026

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Arjun Joshi

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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Researchers Develop Method to Recover 97% Silver from Used Solar Panels

Researchers at the University of Newcastle have developed a safe and effective method to recover high-grade silver from end-of-life solar panels without using acid,...

January 13, 2026

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Meghana Prasad

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Solar

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Technology
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Daily News Wrap-Up: China’s Silver Inventory Hits Record Low

China’s long role as an invisible stabilizer in the silver market is starting to break down. For years, whenever the West ran short of metal, flows from China quietly...

December 12, 2025

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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China’s Record Low Silver Inventory Raises Global Solar Supply Chain Risk

China’s long role as an invisible stabilizer in the silver market is starting to break down. For years, whenever the West ran short of metal, flows from China quietly...

December 11, 2025

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Arjun Joshi

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Markets & Policy

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Mercom Research Focus

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Solar
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Month in a Minute: Top Headlines from the Indian Renewable Sector in September 2024

India added 3.6 GW of solar open access capacity in the first half (1H) of 2024, a 153% increase from the 1.4 GW installed during the same period in 2023, according to...

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Demand for Silver Rising as India Ramps Up Solar Cell Production

India imported more silver in the first four months of 2024 than it did in the whole of last year, and according to data from Silver Academy, it is set to double again....

September 27, 2024

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Markets & Policy

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Renewable Energy

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Solar
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Scientists Develop New Way to Recover Silver from End-of-Life Solar Cells

Scientists from the University of Camerino have developed a novel way of extracting silver from end-of-life solar cells. Solar cells use various metals, such as aluminum,...

September 26, 2024

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Tina Freese

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Solar

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Technology
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Photovoltaic Industry Needs to Cut Silver Consumption to Avoid Supply Risks

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, have found that the current rate of reduction in silver consumption is insufficient to avoid the rising...

January 9, 2023

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Solar

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Technology
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New Laser Technique to Reduce Amount of Silver in Solar Modules

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy (ISE) have developed a new laser technique to reduce the amount of silver used in the production of solar panels...

May 17, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Technology
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Dependence on Silver Could Hamper Terawatt Scale Solar Module Production: Report

Researchers from the School of Photovoltaic Renewable Energy and Engineering (SPREE), University of New South Wales, estimate that the annual photovoltaic (PV) module...

September 30, 2021

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Arjun Joshi

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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Silver Demand by the Global Solar PV Market Surges to 3,142 Tons

As the solar photovoltaic (PV) market continues to expand, with 18 countries achieving 1 GW installation capacity in 2020, silver’s offtake by the PV industry reached...

April 27, 2021

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Rahul Nair

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Other

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Renewable Energy
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Solar Module Prices to Remain High Until Second Half of 2021: Chinese Manufacturers

Two leading Chinese manufacturers have said that the spiraling prices of raw materials like glass, polysilicon, and silver since the second half of 2020 have led to a...

April 26, 2021

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B.S. Nagaraj

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Markets & Policy

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Solar

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