Analysis

According to EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, due to both weak demand and limited demand boost from the rush order transfers from China, most Taiwanese solar manufacturers released their latest sales figures of Dece...  more

India has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The country depends on fossil fuels-- coal (40%), oil (24%) and natural gas (6%) to meet nearly 70 percent of its energy needs, according to theInternational Energy Agen...  more

According to the current development, EnergyTrend, TrendForce's green energy division expects 2012 to be the year for the global solar industry to face an arduous challenge and weed out the weak. The policies will focus on the tot...  more

On October 19, SolarWorld, a German company with a solar panel manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, and 1,000 employees, filed trade violation petitions with the International Trade Commision (ITC) and the US Commerce Depa...  more

Even with the political changes happening in the Middle East, there are significant large-scale renewable energy projects moving forward for both local power generation, as well as for power export to EU. The Middle East experienc...  more

According to solar companies’ financial statements, vertically integrated manufacturers still held their leading positions and delivered stronger performance in terms of gross profit, compared to the manufacturers which were speci...  more

When Soitec built a concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) power plant for the 17th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) held November 28 to December 9, 2011 in Durban, So...  more

Government subsidies and incentives—feed-in-tariffs, tax credits, tax breaks, loan guarantees and renewable energy credits—all have combined to fuel the development of the solar industry. Compared to conventional fossi...  more