ROTH Capital and Wood Mackenzie analysts have updated their outlooks on COVID-19's potential impacts on the US residential and utility-scale solar markets, respectively.
The seasonally soft first quarter of the year for the residential solar rooftop market in the US played out again in 2017, with the addition of much heavier rainfall, notably in California. A basket of primarily US residential installers that are publically listed have recently reported first quarter results.
US-based solar PV installer Sunworks said it had selected SolarEdge Technologies has its preferred inverter supplier on the back of expected residential market growth in the fourth quarter of 2016 onwards.