Fortum has signed an agreement whereby the company is to sell 54% ofits 185 MW solar PV portfolio. The assets are going to be sold to UK Climate Investments (40%) Elite Alfred Berg (14%), the latter of which has the opportunity to buy an additional 16%. Fortum will retain minori...... [More]

Only days after the Chinese government announced a substantial withdrawal of support for solar PV on May 31, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) responded with a report forecating that global PV module prices would fall 34% over the course of 2018, estimating that monocrystalline...... [More]

Americas solar industry had its toughest quarter in two years.Faced with political uncertainty, rising equipment prices, a slowdown in maturing markets, a churn within residential installer rankings, deployments in the third quarter of the year are down on both a quarterly annual...... [More]

As the Atlantic continues to churn out some of the deadliest storms on record, the repercussions continue to rock the South southeastern U.S. Whether it is the physical impact of the recent storms on solar projects or the economic impact throughout energy markets, how do these e...... [More]

In spite of some uncertainties in the solar market, overall corporate funding in the industry, including venture capital (VC) funding, debt funding public market financing, reached $4.6 billion over the first half of the year, up from $4.5 billion in 2016, but also droped fro...... [More]

Besides being a major environmental risk to health, air pollution could be a serious threat to the solar industry as well. Looking into the losses caused by accumulation of airborne particles on solar panels, a group of researchers has found that energy output may be reduced by o...... [More]