Editors’ Blog

Editors' Blog, Features
April 20, 2015
By Ben Willis
Ahead of a two-day event focusing on West Africa, Ben Willis asks whether political leaders are prepared to take the necessary decisions to help solar energy fulfil its huge potential in the region.
Editors' Blog, Features
March 25, 2015
By Mark Osborne
Yingli Green’s PV module shipment guidance for 2015, compared to its four closest rivals could result in a further slide down the rankings this year.
Editors' Blog, Features
March 16, 2015
By Mark Osborne
SolarCity's move into PV manufacturing is one of the global PV industry's big unfolding stories. Mark Osborne assesses what the Californian company will have to do to pull of its ambitious upstream venture.
Editors' Blog, Features
March 13, 2015
By John Parnell
A week of rumour, speculation, leaked documents and hastily written rebuttals have intensified the air of secrecy and suspicion surrounding the EU-China solar trade deal and plunged it deep into chaos, says John Parnell.
Editors' Blog, Features
March 2, 2015
By Andy Colthorpe
From the nuclear question to Japan's softening stance on foreign solar imports, Andy Colthorpe rounds up the main themes that came out of PV Expo in Tokyo last week.
Editors' Blog, Features
February 24, 2015
By Andy Colthorpe
The PV Expo exhibition and conference takes place in Japan this week and will look both to the present task of executing projects from a 50GW-plus pipeline and to the longer term challenges faced by an industry entering the final years of its feed-in tariff (FiT).
Editors' Blog, Features
February 16, 2015
By John Parnell
An India project MoU may mean nothing in isolation but if the big ideas they contain can be matched with big investment, their job will be done.
Editors' Blog, Features
February 3, 2015
By John Parnell
The inclusion of the investment tax credit (ITC) in President Obama’s 2016 budget is of course good news but it is the beginning not the end of the debate.
Editors' Blog, Features
February 2, 2015
By Mark Osborne
The dark days for the PV equipment sector are nearing an end after three years of strict capital cash management and reduced R&D spending by cell and module manufacturers, brought on by chronic overcapacity. Mark Osborne speaks to Applied Materials' Jim Mullin for his thoughts on where PV cell technology is headed next.
Editors' Blog, Features
January 6, 2015
By Mark Osborne
After what was a busy year for solar, that saw big strides forward for the global industry, Mark Osborne takes a look at the PV Tech stories that most caught our readers' eye.

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