Mark Osborne, the Senior News Editor for PV Tech, revealed last week that the fourth quarter of 2017 saw the highest ever recorded levels of new solar PV manufacturing expansion announcements for a quarter, totaling around 40 gigawatts across the thin-film, solar cell & module assembly, and integrated cell & module manufacturing segments.
Capital expenditure for the global solar PV industry will grow by almost 25% on 2017 levels and punch through the $10 billion mark, returning to levels not seen since 2010 and 2011, according to one of the solar industry’s leading experts, PV Tech’s Finlay Colville.
Veteran solar analyst and Senior News Editor for PV-Tech Mark Osborne has published a new analysis which shows that planned global solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements across the first-half of 2017 showed a significant increase over the previous second-half of 2016.
One of the industry’s leading experts, Finlay Colville, has concluded that the United Kingdom’s large-scale solar pipeline is approaching 4 gigawatts thanks in part to a new 300 megawatt solar farm being developed in the south of England.
Analysis conducted by PV Tech has concluded that the total global solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion plans for the first quarter of 2015 topped 22 GW. Solar PV supply chain news and analysis website PV Tech published its latest preliminary analysis of the industry’s first quarter manufacturing capacity expansion announcements this … [continued]
Solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements topped 55 GW in 2015, according to new analysis from PV Tech. According to Mark Osborne, Senior News Editor at PV Tech, PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in 2015 more than doubled, from 21 GW in 2014 to 55.19 GW in 2015. However, as … [continued]
Originally published on PV Solar Report. By Rosana Francescato Solar advocates around the country express varying views on the Value of Solar Tariff. Being proposed as an alternative to net metering, the policy has its pros and cons — but some worry that it imposes a tax on solar customers … [continued]
