Solar in India is rapidly reaching mainstream status and you can find solar products in the daily lives of people even without government subsidies. Here is a picture of an old man running a food stall, who I was surprised to find was using a solar panel to charge his mobile phone and LED light. […]

Investment in Solar Solar commentary these days has become hugely bullish as solar stocks touch new highs. Sunpower, Trina Solar, Canadian Solar are all reaching their 2009 levels, as solar demand skyrockets in Japan, China and USA. I think that 35 GW will be easily reached this year, given that there are indications that China […]

The solar panel industry has been on a major upswing in 2013, with stock prices doubling even tripling for major solar panel makers such as Trina Solar, Canadian Solar, Sunpower etc. The reason has been the very strong demand leading to full capacity utilization and ASP increase of solar products. Solar module prices have seen […]

Solar Inverter Market The Solar Inverter Market is seeing increasing pressure of competition even as the solar panel prices have started to stabilize. The solar module makers do not have much room to decrease prices given that most panel makers are still making losses and the gross margins remain near the low double digit level. […]

Inventions in Solar Industry The solar industry is seeing new applications and innovation by industry veterans as the industry grows out of its infancy stage. The industry is already reaching an annual revenue target of $100 billion, which makes it a fairly large one. For example the semiconductor industry is of $250 billion size, while […]

Asahi Glass to exit Solar Glass Business? China is starting to dominate all parts of the crystalline solar supply chain. The country earlier used to dominate the solar module manufacturing but is now extending this dominance to other parts of the solar industry. One of the major factors in the growth of other solar ancillary […]