Category: Commercialization

February 13, 2019

In the 1970s, I studied defense policy at M.I.T. but became disillusioned. One of the recent graduates, then working in the Senate, described how large amounts of quantitative research would be set aside by politicians who focused on spending that […]

February 8, 2019

The state government of Gujarat recently concluded another edition of its biennial Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit. The summit, once again, witnessed pledges being made for large-scale renewable energy deployment in the state, but these pledges need to be taken […]

January 21, 2019

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo included $1.2 billion for renewable energy projects in the 2019 Executive Budget for the state. The investment is part of a broader multibillion-dollar Green New Deal aimed at completely eliminating the state’s carbon footprint. Cuomo’s […]

January 15, 2019

The solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) market across the U.S. is projected to exceed $14 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Global Market Insights, Inc. Regulatory measures to decrease the dependence on conventional fuels, favored by […]

January 11, 2019

Clean energy advocates are working to raise awareness about a “giant money fire hose” made available to the industry starting this year. The glut of cash, tied to a portion of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, […]

December 26, 2018

The U.S. could tap into a vast offshore wind energy resource and better steward its marine environment by galvanizing large-scale research and fostering public-private partnerships, according to a report by the Partnership for Offshore Wind Energy Research (POWER-US). The report […]

December 19, 2018

Chinese solar companies could be owed almost US$300 million in trade tariff rebates by the US government following a low-profile court ruling. Last month, the US court of international trade ordered that the department of commerce needed to either recalculate […]

December 17, 2018

Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported solar panels are stifling progress. But those prices have fallen so far and so fast that the damage has been dulled. The economic uncertainty, nonetheless, remains a huge pall hovering over the solar sector. Roughly […]

December 13, 2018

On Thursday, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reported results of their analysis of U.S. solar installations in the third quarter of 2018. While large-scale solar installations fell, the residential market continued to stabilize […]

November 26, 2018

A yawning investment gap in clean energy means it is still just a marginal part of many portfolios It is not the smoothest of roads, but politicians globally are realising that their electorates are trending towards greater environmental consciousness. And […]

November 21, 2018

The global energy retrofit systems market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8% from 2018 to 2023, according to a new report by Research N Reports. The report, titled “Global Energy Retrofit Systems Market Research Report 2018,” says […]

November 12, 2018

Reducing the risk (de-risking) of investment in renewable energy projects is a critically important step to decarbonizing energy systems to prevent dangerous climate change, with three major components: technology risk, development risk and pricing risk. Addressing each of these risk […]

October 30, 2018

Today (10/23), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for up to $53 million in new projects to advance early-stage solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE will fund 53 […]

October 9, 2018

Historically, we have tracked the annual R&D spending of 12 key publicly-listed PV module manufacturers over the last 10 years to provide insight into the broader industry trends of innovation, higher conversion efficiencies and overall competitiveness of the sector. In […]

October 3, 2018

President Donald Trump’s trade war won’t wreck the U.S. wind industry, but it will raise the cost of power. Tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports, as well as on metals from Europe and elsewhere, could raise the cost of […]