The Silicon Industry Branch of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association has cancelled its weekly polysilicon price publication, claiming that this is “in order to avoid excessive interpretation and misunderstanding of the polysilicon price.” There are other organizations publishing weekly prices, and for several months the polysilicon price has grown by a consistent 0.3% to 0.4% each week, but in the last quarter of the year the price of polysilicon could spike even despite an at least 5% growth of supply each month. With both demand and supply to rise significantly throughout Q4, some “excessive interpretation of the price” could indeed occur, though this will be eased by the confident expectation of lower prices from Q1 2023 on. German gas…