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Current Solar Industry Trends: Storage and Low Costs
Predicting the future is always fraught with hazards but a recent survey caught our eye with a bold prediction: nearly one-third of solar installers/integrators world wide expect to utilize storage in more than 40% of their installs by 2015! Oh and they need microinverters to come down in cost by 50% before they are willing [...]
Energy Investors Look to Industry Trends
The US is by far the world’s greatest user of energy per capita in the world. Each American uses about 87,000 kilowatts in 2008 – that is twice as much as the European Union (EU), the next closest consumer! Understanding energy trends in this country is extremely important for investors who want to understand how [...]
Electricity Rates Continue Upward Trend
The latest Electric Power Monthly report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows yet another increase in residential electricity rates for May. This latest increase put rates over 13% higher than they were in January of this year. In May, residential electricity rates acrossthe U.S. were on average 11.96 cents/kWh. To put that in perspective,if [...]
Solar Inverter Industry Review and Trend Watch
Thesolar PV inverter market is about $2.4 billion and growing as quicklyas the solar market grows. And as the price of PV modules plummeted in2009 – the price of inverters and balance of plant became a moresignificant portion of the entire system install. While mostPV module and cell manufacturers stand amidst a bloodbath of slimmargins [...]
Trade Idea For Wednesday – Yingli Green Energy (YGE)
YGE – The stock failed to continued it’s bearish scenario today. Thestock topped at 13.04 and closed at 12.98. On the daily chart we cansee the short term bearish trend line has been violated to the upside.The bias is now bullish in nearest term but remains neutral in mediumterm. With KD rising we could see [...]
Stock To Watch Friday – DayStar Technologies
Chart courtesy of www.stockcharts.com ( click to enlarge ) DSTIbroke out above the resistance of 1.03 on Wednesday and achieved myfirst target. Today, the price broke out above some strong resistancesareas, but the bulls could not sustain the breakout and price closedwell off its high. Short-term trend is not clear in this stock, we haveto [...]
China Presses The Go Button for Solar
When China announced its 12th Five Year Plan last year, it made some bold goals in sustainable energy: cutting energy intensity by 16%, carbon intensity by 17% and boosting non-fossil fuel sources to 11.4% of primary fuel consumption. Nearly one year on and there has been significant progress. China is well on the way to [...]