GTMs tenth annual Solar Summit took place this week in exciting, frustrating volatile times for the industry. Shayle Kann, senior vice president at GTM Research, kicked off the event by confronting the difficult realities of the solar industry today. He also gave some strong reas...... [More]

Pioneering solar PV manufacturer SolarWorld AG is insolvent. The company announced today it is over-indebted would immediately file an application for insolvency.Citing ongoing price distortions within the market no longer a positive forecat for the future SolarWorld AG is filing...... [More]

With major corporations setting ambitious environmental targets, a surge in dem for renewable energy certificates (RECs)* is anticipated, according to the market players gathered at the RECS Market Meeting in Amsterdam on 21-22 March.This is something of great force, something un...... [More]

Clean energy investment numbers for the first quarter of 2017 show a mix of performances across the cleantech sector.Worldwide clean energy investments totaled $53.6 billion in the first quarter of this year, down 17 percent from the first quarter of 2016, down 7 percent from the...... [More]

One of the big questions for humanitys future is: how will we supply enough clean plentiful energy to sustain a growing global population? At face value, the big question has a simple answer: solar. In theory, the worlds dem could be met by just one thousth of the suns energy lin...... [More]

The solar singularity is the point where solar becomes so cheap in a majority of contries around the world that it is established as the default new power source. This piece is my second annual followup to my original article on the solar singularity from early 2015. My 2016 upat...... [More]