Solar Energy Market Research I Solar Industry Analysis & Reports

Large institutions such as investment banks, insurance companies, and pension funds are a vital source of capital for the transformation of the global energy system. Governments and the private sector need to work together to mobilise institutional capital for renewable energy investment.

Countries seeking to scale up renewables can draw on the bond market, including the growing range of securities dedicated to sustainable, environmentally beneficial, climate-safe project finance. Renewable energy has emerged as a major recipient of such green bond proceeds.

According to the data published by Chinese NEA, the People’s Republic installed 12 gigawatts of photovoltaic projects in December. However, the country also developed almost 41 gigawatts of carbon-emitting coal power generation capacity during 2019.

On a continent where 600 million people have no access to electricity, “The combination of solar and fintech is driving an economic transformation.”

Far from bringing the grid down, clean energy could help save it.

Renown think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has published a new report looking directly at the near-future for fossil-fuel industry dependent towns and communities like Collie in WA. The report suggests that Collie has great hope for renewal, a hope founding on the state’s rapid transition to renewable energies.

The EIA is projecting that 17.4 GWdc of utility-scale solar power and 6.6 GWdc of small-scale solar will be installed in 2020. The 24 GW total is 60% greater than the 2016 record.

The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) finances innovative projects to expand sustainable energy access as part of a joint initiative with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). ADFD committed USD 350 million to support renewable energy uptake in developing countries through seven annual selection and funding cycles starting in 2013.

Renewable energy has advanced since 2010 to the centre ground of global energy and development policy. Renewables have become the world’s primary source of new power capacity, outpacing all other forms of new generation put together.

Large scale solar passed the 200-GWAC milestone in 2019, following another year of record deployment; according to preliminary figures released today by Wiki-Solar. New installations topped 40-GWAC in 2019 making it the tenth consecutive year of rising figures

The quarterly SEIA/Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables U.S. Solar Market InsightTM report shows the major trends in the U.S. solar industry.