To sum up, “The story of 2019 is likely to be – more auctions in countries which need more energy, more prices of $25-35/MWh, more utility-scale storage associated with PV. More mono. Probably some exits of current manufacturers,” Jenny Chase, head of solar analysis at ......[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 prod......[More]

While there were a number of PV firsts this year, the biggest story of 2018, without a doubt, was that of China’s 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 charge. Effect......[More]

India could add 56-58 GW of solar capacity in the next four years, domestic ratings agency CRISIL said in a report published on Friday. The expected capacity addition would be an almost 300% jump from the 20 GW added in the 2014-18 fiscal period. The ramp-up will be dri......[More]

In its report, the DGTR concluded that increased imports of solar PV cells in India have caused “serious injury” “threaten to cause serious injury” to domestic producers. The safeguard duty of 25% on PV modules cells will now come into force from July 30, 2018. The noti......[More]

The contract, worth around $600 million, was signed on July 17 with an un-named U.S. “major ground power plant developer”. Under the terms, monocrystalline modules will be shipped over a four-year period, between 2019 2022. The Chinese PV manufacturer’s wholly-owned sub......[More]