World Economy and Markets
March 11, 2020
The Chinese solar industry is by far the dominant country in terms of solar product manufacturing with 9 of the top 10 manufactures of solar panels […]
March 3, 2020
Chinese solar company Longi has transformed the global solar industry by managing to produce monocrystalline solar ingots and wafers at a much lower cost than the […]
February 28, 2020
The upstream part of the solar supply chain was the only part where Chinese companies were not dominating the market completely. Due to the complex chemical […]
February 24, 2020
Australia like most of the Anglo Saxon countries such as the USA and Canada have been extremely reluctant to make meaningful contributions towards the fight against […]
February 17, 2020
The United Kingdom after Brexit faces a challenge in boosting economic growth and has to look for newer pastures apart from Europe where it can generate […]
February 6, 2020
The fall in Chinese demand in 2019 had led to a sharp fall in the prices of the upstream solar supply chain namely polysilicon, wafers, and […]
January 23, 2020
Even before the election of Donald Trump, solar energy had witnessed a war between the USA and China with both countries having imposed anti-subsidy and anti-dumping […]
January 22, 2020
The solar capacity additions in China dropped to just 30 GW down from around 45 GW in 2018. The 30 GW was also much ahead of […]
January 20, 2020
The rise of green parties in Europe has had a hugely positive effect on the fight against climate change. Countries such as Germany, Austria, and others […]
January 15, 2020
Thin film technology in the early parts of the decade was looked upon as a competitor for crystalline silicon solar technology. However, the rapid scale-up and […]
December 19, 2019
Europe is seeing a strong resurgence in solar capacity additions as grid parity has made it economical to install solar energy as compared to other power sources. […]
December 17, 2019
Huawei has become the poster boy or rather the whipping boy of the US-China trade war with the USA going hammer and tongs against the Chinese […]
December 9, 2019
Lumos which is a Dutch company operating in the off-grid solar space in Nigeria plans to substantially scale up its presence in the Western African country. […]
October 29, 2019
Australia is known globally as a major gas exporter thanks to its massive onshore and offshore reserves of gas. The country also has huge coal resources […]
October 21, 2019
The cryptocurrency market has lost a large amount of value in the past few months, and the days of its peak in December of 2017 may […]
September 2, 2019
EVs in India The Indian solar industry is dominated by Chinese solar companies which push huge amounts of cheap solar products into the country which has […]
August 26, 2019
The long-awaited grid parity had arrived in the last couple of years in multiple places such as India where both solar and wind prices are now […]
August 16, 2019
China’s industrial strategy of dominating new industries through massive state support in the form of billions of dollars in loans and subsidies has ensured that it […]
August 7, 2019
The world has become somewhat immune to the repeated news chatter of a new record low in solar prices. Given last year, almost every month used […]
August 5, 2019
Australia is a prime example where the renewable energy sector has been growing at a torrid pace despite an unfavorable government which wants to stifle its […]
August 1, 2019
Plans to export solar power to other countries is not a new concept and the most famous example was Desertec where a plan was to build […]
July 17, 2019
The Indian solar manufacturing industry was expected to see a revival with the imposition of a 25% safeguard duty on imports of solar cells and modules […]
July 10, 2019
USA made India remove its domestic content requirements (DCR) a couple of years ago for solar panel projects by moving the WTO as it violated the […]
June 13, 2019
China moves to a Market Driven Mechanism The Chinese solar market is the major driver of solar panel prices globally given that it accounts for around […]
June 10, 2019
Lowest Cost of Solar Power in India IRENA has come out with a report which shows that India has shown the least cost of installing solar […]
May 23, 2019
Trina Solar has been a stalwart of the global solar industry, having successfully navigated the violent ups and downs of the industry as it had made […]
May 13, 2019
Longi continues to hit the ball out of the solar park even as other firms fail Longi has become one of the most successful companies in […]
May 9, 2019
The Chinese government has been exceptional in establishing its dominance on rapid growth in new industries. Its private sector has also responded well, leveraging the strengths […]
May 1, 2019
Solar thermal technology has failed to upgrade its niche technology status, with solar PV technology taking over the solar energy space with its ever falling costs […]
April 17, 2019
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