Tag: US solar

October 17, 2019

Google says it will spend US$150 million on renewable energy in regions where its products are manufactured, in a move it hopes will galvanise a further US$1.5 billion of investment. The news was revealed by Anna Meegan, head of consumer […]

August 22, 2019

Solar is to leapfrog wind to become the undisputed top renewable energy source for US corporates greening their supply through 2030, according to Wood Mackenzie and US wind body AWEA. In a report unveiled this week, both organisations said a […]

May 8, 2019

Overall PPA prices decreased quarter over quarter across wind and solar for all five major markets in the United States, according to LevelTen Energy’s Q1 2019 PPA Pricing Index. To determine how PPA offer prices change each quarter, Seattle-based LevelTen […]

April 30, 2019

The price of solar has come down so dramatically in the past few years that it is now competing with and beating generation sources across the board. “Despite the fact that we’re now in a world where there are tariffs […]

December 4, 2018

If other states follow the California proposal to require solar on all new home builds, the United States could have three times as much solar power as it does now, reckon analysts at Environment America who have produced a new […]

June 7, 2018

President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported solar panels has led U.S. renewable energy companies to cancel or freeze investments of more than $2.5 billion in large installation projects, along with thousands of jobs, the developers told Reuters. That’s more than […]

May 31, 2018

Hanwha Q CELLS became the latest company to make a gigawatt-scale manufacturing commitment in the US. However, no overseas firm has committed any new cell capacity, suggesting the longer term value to the US economy is likely less than hoped. […]

February 27, 2018

Even as U.S. solar faced a tumultuous year, installer confidence “improved significantly” over 2016, according to a survey conducted by EnergySage and the installer certification organization the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners. “From speaking with our installers across […]

January 23, 2018

After 9 months of uncertainty and vitriol, US President Donald Trump has decided this week to impose a 30% tariff on imported solar cells and modules in response to a Section 201 trade case filed by Suniva and SolarWorld back […]

December 18, 2017

The solar investment tax credit (ITC) has survived a major round of tax reform in the US. Fears over an effective shortening of the ITC and the wind power industry’s equivalent, the production tax credit (PTC), to just four years […]

December 21, 2016

While 2016 is expected to eclipse the 10-gigawatt annual mark for the first time ever, and by a wide margin, three trends are expected to shape the near-term U.S. solar market outlook. Looking ahead to 2017, each of these trends […]