Market research firm IHS has released a new forecat for the photovoltaics industry that is more bullish about global installations in 2013 than many others.Confirming its previous projection, IHS said that global PV installations in 2012 reached 31.4GW, a 14% increase over the...... [More]

A new Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) report has significantly raised its PV installation forecat for Japan in 2013, yet points to the US market being weaker than expected.Previously, BNEF said that it expected PV installations in Japan to reach between 3.2-4GW in 2013. Ho...... [More]

The government of Kerala, India, has released a draft solar policy, effective 1 April 2013, having set itself a target of 500MW to be achieved by 2017 and 1,500MW by 2030.Policies have been laid out for off-grid rooftop systems, grid-connected small-scale systems, off-site gen...... [More]

Global PV installations hit 32GW in 2012, up from 28GW in 2011, according to the latest figures from market research firm, IHS. Growth is also expected in 2013 but restricted to only a 3GW rise to 35GW.However, falling Average Selling Price""s (ASP""s) over the last two-years ...... [More]

The Japanese Ministry of Economy has announced that Japan installed 1,398MW since April last year.A committee was convened to consider possible changes to the current feed-in tariff for PV installations. The current rate of 42 (US$0.525) per kWh will end with the closing fisca...... [More]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that the states NY-Sun solar initiative will receive an additional US$150 million in funding every year for the next 10 years.Launched in 2012, NY-Sun seeks to quadruple the solar capacity in the state of New York in 2013. The initi...... [More]