North Carolina now ranked second in U.S. for installed solar
The southeastern state installed approximately 115 MW in the second quarter of the year to leapfrog Arizona and become the state with the second most installed PV capacity across the United States.
2.05 GW of solar PV installed in the United States during Q2
GTM Research expects 13.9 GW to be installed over the full year, the result of an ongoing utility-scale boom.
H2 2016 solar slowdown will preface 10% global contraction in 2017, says GTM Research
Analysts expect installations in China, U.K. and Japan to slow over the second half of the year, but U.S. project spillover and India’s large pipeline will hold course despite global slowdown forecast for 2017.
Greentech Media, GTM Research to be acquired by Verisk Analytics
GTM Research will be folded into energy metal and mining research and consultancy company Wood Mackenzie.
Greenskies jumps to #1 in the U.S. C&I solar sector during Q1
GTM Research says SolarCity fell to second place in the commercial and industrial market during the quarter. The first quarter of 2016 saw a shake-up in the ranking of leading commercial and industrial (C&I) solar installers in the United States, according to the latest report from GTM Research’s Leaderboard service. The company says that Greenskies […]
U.S. federal government leads energy storage commitments
At a summit at the White House a wide array of actors made commitments to fund and deploy energy storage, accompanied by the release of a new report on technical and economic dimensions of renewable energy integration. While deployment is growing rapidly, at this time energy storage in the United States is a small and […]
Inverter shipments to reach 90 GW globally by 2020, says GTM
New report suggests that PV inverters and module level power electronics will grow by an average annual rate of 11% between now and 2020, with central inverters set to relinquish market dominance. The GTM Research Global PV Inverter and MLPE Landscape 2016 report, released today, forecasts a period of strong growth for both standard inverters […]
Boom time in Texas
Texas at scale: Texas has been only a modest solar market to date, but that is changing fast. A boom started by municipal utilities and enabled by free transmission is expected to lead to a massive amount of utility-scale solar coming online over the
next five years, and even more over the next decade.
