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 forecasting that global PV module prices would fall 34% over the course of 2018, estimating that mono......[More]

Since the surprise announcement last week by the Chinese government that it would make multiple unfavorable changes for the compensation of solar projects, analysts have been scrambling to determine how this move by the world’s largest solar market will affect other mar......[More]

Trina Solar has successfully closed the acquisition of Spain-based Nclave Renewable S.L. This is the first time that a Chinese solar company has acquired a solar tracker producer outside of its home market, accelerating Trina Solar’s strategic transformation from a lead......[More]

Today, the California Energy Commission unanimously approved nation’s first requirement that all new homes include solar generation by 2020. The 2019 Building Energy Efficiency Stards goes much farther than just solar power. The document represents California trying to ......[More]

We at pv magazine USA have not been the biggest fans of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) monthly Energy Infrastructure update. There are multiple reasons why we feel the report falls short. To start with, it does not include “behind-the-meter” dist......[More]

While power sector holdouts such as FirstEnergy get headlines by pushing for disingenuous regulatory changes in a vain attempt to make the future look like the past, many U.S. power companies are seeing the light in the low predictable costs of large-scale wind solar. O......[More]