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From subsidy to energy trading
As asset managers become the renewables utilities of the future – given the remarkable advances that solar has made over the past decade – they will have to ensure clean energy generation while working...
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Knotty string inverter supply
With products thin on the ground, all manner of explanations have been offered up for the latest solar components shortage, says pvXchange’s Martin Schachinger.Anyone who has followed the solar market...
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State of the (European) union
Gerard Reid, co-founder of corporate finance advisory Alexa Capital, considers whether the EU is up to the task of dealing with the twin threats of the energy crisis and the pull of a revitalized US...
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What PV installers expect in 2023
Solar module prices continued to fall in January, and there is no end in sight. The main drivers impacting prices are lower shipping rates from China and the further recovery of the euro-US dollar...
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A new year in PV
It looked as though 2022 might end on a quiet note, as supply chains and component prices stabilize, but December painted a very different picture. In PV modules, at least, there has been a lot of...
View ArticleDrags on demand for US residential
The Invesco Solar exchange traded fund (ETF) TAN significantly underperformed relative to the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stock indexes in September. Jesse Pichel, of Roth...
View ArticleCapital constraints
The Invesco Solar exchange-traded fund (ETF) TAN under-performed relative to the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in August. Roth Capital Partners’ Jesse Pichel attributes this...
View ArticleResidential revision
Ahead of the RE+ renewable energy trade show in Las Vegas, solar investors and the industry are looking for signs of stability in a residential market which has experienced many bumps in the road....
View ArticleCalifornia slowdown
During the month of June, the Invesco Solar ETF (exchange-traded fund), an ETF that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, under-performed relative to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial...
View ArticleNew start, new rules
The Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, under-performed the S&P 500 in May and out-performed the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Jesse...
View ArticleRooftop slowdown
The Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, under-performed relative to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average in April. Jesse Pichel, of...
View ArticleCaught in the crossfire
The Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, under-performed relative to the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in March. Jesse...
View ArticleNew lease on life
The Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, under-performed relative to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in February. Roth...
View ArticleFalling prices, rising demand
In January, the Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, outperformed relative to the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Roth Capital’s...
View ArticleControversial California
In December, the Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the MAC Global Solar Energy Index, underperformed relative to the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Jesse Pichel,...
View ArticleOversupply bites
It was only in June, at the Intersolar Europe trade show, that the extent of the oversupply situation facing the global solar market in 2023 became clear. Following a wave of multi-gigawatt capacity...
View ArticleApplications for market balance
The pendulum has swung back. PV module prices are falling rapidly once again. After a period of pandemic-disrupted supply chain and supply constraint – and resultant higher prices – intense competition...
View ArticleManufacturing everywhere
Large parts of the history of the modern solar industry have been written by China’s manufacturers. Key developments such as the achievement of vast scale in production; the lock-step development of...
View ArticleFresh contacts, fresh perspectives
With one terawatt of solar having been installed globally, a milestone that was reached last year, it should come as no surprise that many new people are coming into contact with our technology each...
View ArticleIt was the best of times…
With the dislocation and disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, ongoing climatic upheavals as the result of global warming, and the crisis posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the opening part of this...
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