The world has become somewhat immune to the repeated news chatter of a new record low in solar prices. Given last year, almost every month used to bring another record in solar auctions conducted around the world (Mexico, Saudi Arabia, USA, etc.), solar auction prices had become run of the mill with no one paying […]

Despite becoming the third-largest market in the world for solar energy installations, the experience of Indian solar companies has been quite nightmarish with a number of companies seeing liquidation (Moser Baer, Indosolar) due to the massive competition unleashed by the dominant Chinese solar companies. While the Indian solar manufactuers have suffered, the other players in the […]

Australia is a prime example where the renewable energy sector has been growing at a torrid pace despite an unfavorable government which wants to stifle its growth. The country has seen a huge step up in the growth of its overall solar and wind energy capacities in the last couple of years as economics have […]

Plans to export solar power to other countries is not a new concept and the most famous example was Desertec where a plan was to build massive solar farms in the Sahara to supply power through undersea cables to Europe. This plan which saw a lot of traction and planning in the early 2010s never […]