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GE Jumps Into Solar Sales $GE
As GE prepares to open its new solar thin-film manufacturing facility in Denver, the company is marketing its product to the most likely of buyers—its wind customers. Invenergy announced plans last week to install 23 megawatts of GE’s new thin-film solar panels at a 210-megawatt wind farm it operates in Illinois. “Wind and solar are [...]
Solar Cost and Market Size
This one is for the chart nerds. A month ago I wrote about the changing cost of solar from 2009 to 2010, and the still remarkable lack of correlation between state solar market size and the cost of solar. In particular, one chart plotted the cost of solar against the size of the state market, [...]
CIGS Market to Double by 2015
While the solar photovoltaic market is tight and competitive, there is one arm researchers say is almost guaranteed to grow. Copper indium gallium diselenide solar (CIGS) will double in installed capacity by 2015, according to a recently released research report from Lux Research. The market for CIGS is expected to be worth more than $2.3 [...]
Trina Introduces New Products for the U.S Market $TSL
As part of its push to increase North American marketshare, China-based Trina Solar announced a “three-pronged service solution,” consisting of three new offerings. Two are on the installation side, and the third is the introduction to the North American market of its more efficient Honey cell PV module. The new module is among the most [...]
SolarReserve Enters PV Market
California-based solar developer SolarReserve announced it has been awarded preferred bidder status by the South Africa Department of Energy for two solar farms. The projects will developed in collaboration with Solar Reserve’s South African partners the Kensani Group and Intikon Energy. The award was part of the first round of renewable energy awards granted by South Africa Energy [...]
Why Gainesville, Florida is a Solar Leader
You don’t have to be big to go big on solar power. That’s the lesson from the Gainesville Regional Utilities, the electric utility whose feed-in tariff solar policy has brought over 7 megawatts (MW) of solar to the city’s 125,000 residents. The raw number isn’t much, but it puts Gainesville among the world leaders in [...]
Global PV to Reach 24 Gigawatts in 2011
Despite a weak start to the year and a tumultuous environment for the world’s solar industry, solar PV installations will reach 24 gigawatts (GW) in 2011, a rise of 24% from the previous year. Solar PV will rise just 3% in Europe, however, and Italy will displace Germany as the world’s largest market. Although installations almost doubled in [...]
U.S PV Market to Double in 2011
It’s a mixed blessing.Photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer’s earnings shrunk in the second quarter of 2011 as they lowered module prices to ovoid overstock. Those lowered prices, increased utility demand, renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and the potential expiration of important federal incentives are creating a storm of demand, under which the U.S. PV market will double over [...]
How Suppliers Can Serve the U.S. Utility PV Market
PV manufacturers are in a mad dash to determine their strategies toserve the U.S. utility PV market. Despite the fact that there is less than 300 MW of cumulative capacity connected on the utility side of the meter today, the market is widely recognized as an enormous growth opportunity over the next five years. Suppliers [...]
2011 Solar Market Scenarios
While we will not have the all the numbers for 2010 until about March2011, let us assume that in 2010 the solar industry will install 15GW at an average cost of $5.50/watt. This compares with 7.5GW at $6.50/wattin 2009, and 5GW at $7.50/watt in 2008. (Rough round figures, maybe alittle on the high side.) Of [...]
Solar ETFs Lag Overall Market $TAN $FAN
President Obama has pledged to increase U.S. exports to boost theeconomy. Solar energy is apparently pulling its weight in that regard,yet solar ETFs are putting up painful numbers. The domestic solar power industry is helping the Obama administration to reach its goal of creating more jobs on U.S. turf. So far, it’s working: exports are [...]
Q3 U.S. Solar Market Insight
Today, SEIA® and GTM Research released the third quarter version of U.S. Solar Market Insight™, our quarterly deep-dive into the U.S. solar market. The executive summary can be downloaded here. A few highlights from the PV section (state-level detail contained in the full report): As of the end of the third quarter, the U.S. had [...]