Price falls for solar modules inverters will drive a rise in solar power capacity installation figures in almost 90 contries this year, according to IHS Market, analysts predict that this time next year well be looking back on a three-month period that saw some 34 GW of new PV ad...... [More]

China witnessed an 18% fall in new PV capacity last year, according to figures announced by the nations PV industry association today, but that amounted to a better-than-expected performance from the sector after the government announced a plan to scale back its costly central su...... [More]

ItalysMinistryofEconomicDevelopment(MISE)issuedthecontrysnewNationalIntegratedPlanforClimateEnergy2030,whichhasprovidedmoreclarityontherenewableenergytargetslaidoutintheenergystrategyfortheperiod2020-2030theStrategiaEnergeticaNazionaledefinedbythepreviousgovernmentinNovember2017....... [More]

Some of it is the pending dro-down of the Investment Tax Credit from the end of 2019 through the end of 2023. Some of it is a series of decisions by states, cities corporations to decarbonize their electricity supplyBut whatever the cause, there is an unprecedented, massive volum...... [More]

The two biggest names in the U.S. solar trade fight announced they would become one company in April. Three weeks after CEO, Tom Werner told Bloomberg Reuters that SunPower was looking around for a location to site U.S. manufacturing, the company revealed that this production wil...... [More]

While there were a number of PV firsts this year, the biggest story of 2018, without a doubt, was that ofChinas very abrupt PV policy about turn at the end of May(hence the term: 31/5), which led to the immediate brakes being applied to its PV industry chrge. Effectively, it cont...... [More]