Tag: Market Analysis

  • EnergySage Report: Consumers value solar install price transparency

    EnergySage published its second semi-annual Solar Marketplace Intel Report, providing further visibility into the residential solar market in the United States. By aggregating, analyzing, and publishing research based on millions of transaction-level data points, EnergySage looks at how the solar industry will evolve as it becomes more efficient and transparent,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Department of Energy: Solar industry jobs expected to increase another 15 percent this year

    The profile of jobs in the energy sector is changing, in large part to the success of the solar industry, and the U.S. Department of Energy has updated its reporting criteria to more accurately account for these changes in its jobs report. The first report using this new criteria, theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • GlobalData: Trina Solar tops solar PV module producer in 2015

    Trina Solar held on to its status as the world’s biggest producer of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in 2015, producing 4.55 (GW) of crystalline modules, while Canadian Solar claimed second spot with 3.9 GW in 2015, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData. Trina Solar’s efforts toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • U.S. adds more solar capacity than natural gas for first time ever

    Solar capacity records were made to be broken at this point. In yet another record-breaking year, the solar industry in the United States installed 7,286 MW of solar PV in 2015. This number is more significant for solar than just topping its own previous record — or the first time ever, solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Affordable solar power pricing creates huge opportunity in UAE

    Solar energy pricing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has now reached parity with fossil fuel models, according to a report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This ‘REmap 2030’  report, researched in conjunction with Masdar Institute and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Directorate of Energy and Climate Change,Read More — Solar Builder magazine