2009 Global PV Demand Analysis and Forecast

SunSupermarket – Demand is the new name of the game in the PV market, and project developers are calling the shots. How project developers react to the economic forces impacting the PV industry will determine the market’s near-term future. Understanding the constraints facing project developers is the only way for companies across the PV supply chain to weather the impending shakeout. Faced with limited access to costly capital and waning incentives in major markets, project developers are demanding higher returns from fewer projects. They are passing these pressures on to manufacturers, forcing them to bring down module prices by 25 percent in 2009. Fewer projects lead to slackening demand – projected to increase by only 13 percent in 2009 – and, ultimately, to an industry-wide 15 percent revenue collapse this year alone. Go to report>>

Solar maps – USA

Sun Supermarket – Solar maps provide monthly average daily total solar resource information on grid cells of approximately 40 km by 40 km in size. The insolation values represent the resource available to a flat plate collector, such as a photovoltaic panel, oriented due south at an angle from horizontal to equal to the latitude of the collector location. This is typical practice for PV system installation, although other orientations are also used. Go to website>>

States advancing solar

Sun Supermarket – States Advancing Solar is an initiative of Clean Energy Groupand the Clean Energy States Alliance, with funding support from the Department of Energy through the Solar America Initiative’s State Solar Technical Outreach Project. Go to website>>

Clean Energy Trends 2009

Sun Supermarket – Despite growing economic uncertainty over the last year, the three major clean-energy sectors — solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, and biofuels — kept up a blistering growth rate, increasing 53 percent from $75.8 billion in 2007 to $115.9 billion in revenues in 2008, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2009 report released today by Clean Edge, Inc. By 2018, Clean Edge forecasts that these three sectors will have revenues of $325.1 billion.  Go to article>> or “Clean Energy Trends 2009″ report>>

Solar Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2013

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Solar Expected to Maintain its Status as the World's Fastest-Growing Energy Technology

Sun Supermarket – Photovoltaics (PV) is a solar power technology that converts light from the sun directly into electricity. Photovoltaic production worldwide has been doubling every two years, increasing by an average of 48% each year since 2002, making it the world’s fastest-growing energy technology. 90% of this generating capacity consists of grid-tied electrical systems, in which PV panels generate electricity and interconnect with a utility’s power line. Go to article>>

Solar Power For $2 A Day

Sun Supermarket – Veranda Solar makes affordable, beautiful solar panels that hang out your window or clip to gutters and balconies. Our panels easy installation saves you half the cost of traditional panels. They are plug and play. They snap together. Go to website>>

Iraq Looks to Solar Energy To Help Rebuild its Economy

Sun Supermarket – Off-grid solar panels could soon be installed in Iraq in a push to supply electricity to people across the country, many of whom have no access to the national grid. Go to article>>

World Solar Challenge 2009

Sun Supermarket – 2009 World Solar Challenge is the ultimate challenge in sustainable energy. The Challenge: Design and build a car capable of crossing the vast and imposing continent of Australia using only sunlight as fuel and to prove it, in the spirit of friendly competition against others with the same goal. Go to website>>

Australians motivations for solar

Sun Supermarket – The results of a survey just published by Australia’s Alternative Technology Association show that most Australians purchasing solar power systems primary motivation goes beyond electricity cost savings. The survey found that 53% of respondents who had already installed solar power or solar hot water systems, did so in order to reduce their carbon footprint. 43% stated they wanted to increase renewable energy generation in Australia. Only 19% installed solar energy systems to reduce their electricity bills. Go to report>>