{"id":10211,"date":"2018-06-01T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v4.pv-tech.org\/technical-papers\/pv-manufacturing-capacity-expansion-announcements-in-q1-2018\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:41:34","slug":"pv-manufacturing-capacity-expansion-announcements-in-q1-2018","status":"publish","type":"technical-papers","link":"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/technical-papers\/pv-manufacturing-capacity-expansion-announcements-in-q1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in Q1 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Osborne, senior news editor, Photovoltaics International<\/p>\n<p>PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in the first quarter of 2018 continued to mirror those of the previous two years, highlighting the recent trend of the last quarter and the first quarter of each year (since the end of 2015) being the most active. 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