Several photovoltaic (PV) companies said the operation of their local plants has not been impacted after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Luding County, Southwest China s Sichuan Province on Monday, killing at least 46 people and leaving 16 missing and 50 injured.
Electricity supply for general businesses and industrial production has fully resumed in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, with the exception of some high energy-consuming enterprises. With the power shortage continually easing, all industrial production will resume soon and the temporary electricity shortage will have limited impact on the nation’s overall industrial output for the year, experts said.
Wan Jinjun, a 62-year-old retiree who has swum the Yangtze River almost every day for the past decade in Wuhan, said he's never seen a drought like this
In today's polysilicon development forum, the person in charge of Tongwei Co. (600438, a leading polysilicon manufacturer in China) said that its production base in Sichuan province has been affected by local power rationing since the beginning of August.