GLG News by Solar Panel Installers

The photovoltaic feedstock industry has been generally upbeat in being able to expand polysilicon production.  A balance of supply with growing demand could mean wafer, cell and module price declines.  However, production has to come on line and logistical and problems are cropping up...

The Japanese photovoltaic market has been ailing as of late.  Their great initiative of 1993-2004 resulted in hundreds of thousands of residential-scale installations, making PV approachable in cost-effectiveness to Japanese residential rate payers.  But since then, a lack of political...

The global wind power industry continues its remarkable growth with over 20,000 megawatts (MW) of new capacity in 2007.  This raises the global installed capacity to over 90,000 MW.   The sheer numbers demonstrate wind powered electricity becoming statistically significant in world consumption,...

Concern that global photovoltaic market growth can falter in 2009 may be alleviated by growing markets such as Canada. The Canadian market, primarily Ontario, is being driven by the Ontario Power Authority's Standard Offer Program.  Over 300 Megawatts of photovoltaic projects are in the...

A report by Cleantech Media about Hoku's delay in bringing polysilicon manufacturing and supply on line may be due to a variety of reasons.  Financing issues appear to be a factor as well as technical ones.  The question is whether issues like these are more pervasive throughout the industry...

Wind power in the U.S. continues to grow at a fast pace, but its growth is liable to be choked off as the end of the present incentive approaches on December 31 of this year.  Fast action by Congress with Presidential signature this year looks unlikely with a veto threat being the biggest factor. ...

While solar electric power is installed on tens of thousands of American roofs in California and other states, the market penetration is not even 0.1% of residential rooftops.  High cost is often cited as a chief barrier to wider implementation, but one answer may be solar not being marketed...

While attention continues to be focused on Germany, Spain and Italy in solar and wind power, the announcement by France of a major commitment to the same energy technologies should not go unnoticed.  The proposed growth rates to 2020 may serve as a strategic stabilizer to potential boom and...

The failure by the Senate to pass an Energy Bill without support for the growing solar and wind industries is damaging to the U.S. market, but not the end of the world.  The solar and wind power markets will continue to grow globally, and even in the U.S., despite Federal intransigence.  There...

The Ontario, Canada, photovoltaic market still has to realize its potential after the launching of its feed-in tariff rate.  Most PV developers still found it hard to make the numbers work for a project.  New entrants and technologies like a company offering concentrated PV power may change...