Why is active participation important in PV trade?

Their active participation not only saves costs and improves efficiency in expanding the PV trade networks, but also effectively stabilizes global PV trade patterns and promotes the development of renewable energy.

Does solar PV have a trade pattern in East Asia?

Yang et al. (2017) displayed changes in solar PV’s core-periphery hierarchical trade patterns in East Asia. Based on previous results, Guan et al. (2020) proposed functional trade patterns, the optimal trade patterns measured and determined by network motifs, to estimate the potential PV trade flows effectively.

What is the global PV trade based on?

The data on global PV trade used in this paper comes from the BACI-CEPII 2 Database, covering 251 global economies from 1996 to 2019. According to the division of the PV industry, the upstream is composed of crystalline silicon raw materials and the preparation of silicon rods and silicon wafers.

Is PV hardware traded on energybin a secondary market?

PV hardware traded on EnergyBin is considered to be secondary market goods. The secondary market should not be thought of as a ‘secondhand’ market; although, some goods traded may have been previously installed in a solar array. Rather, the secondary market consists of both new and used equipment.

Why are global PV trade activities growing?

Meanwhile, on account of the PV industry's uneven resource distribution and inconsistent production capacity across regions, as well as the necessity to cope with turbulences in energy markets, global PV trade activities have also experienced tremendous growth in recent years (Algieri et al. 2011; Guan et al. 2016; Guan and An 2017).

Can global PV trade networks be used as a dependent variable?

First, combined with the empirical econometric model, the global PV trade networks can be taken as the dependent variable to further investigate its economic and environmental impacts.