Market Watch

Solar in the Middle East and North Africa continues to flourish, with utility projects leading the way. As Paul Mansouri and Angela Croker of Norton Rose Fulbright write, the development of battery storage technology and a growing interest among large corporates in solar as an energy source will help the market to continue growing

Concerns over Vietnam’s power purchase agreement have not prevented a huge number of project deals being signed. Tom Kenning weighs up what progress is being made in putting one of Southeast Asia’s most promising solar markets on the map

An analysis of R&D spending of 20 publicly listed PV module manufacturers in 2017 has been undertaken to replace Photovoltaics International’s previous list of 12 companies tracked over a 10-year period. A number of the original companies tracked have subsequently de-listed from stock markets and gone private, which meant that a broader analysis, including other listed companies was required to provide a good representation of global R&D spending trends in the PV wafer, cell and module segments of the upstream solar market.

Trade tariffs, technology changes, new suppliers and shifting timelines. US developers and EPCs are riding out challenging times. John Parnell looks at the scale of the upheaval and how module pricing and module technology changes are feeding into the day-to-day work of deploying megawatts

The Indian solar juggernaut shows few signs of slowing down en route to its huge target of 100GW by 2022. But, as Tom Kenning, recent policy developments could create a few bumps in the road along the way

Ben Willis look at the latest developments in some of the most promising emerging PV markets worldwide. This issue features Ukraine, Zambia and Ethiopia

UK solar has defied a retraction of subsidies by finding ever more innovate routes to market. Liam Stoker analyses some of the most interesting business models to take hold as the UK emerges as a post-subsidy solar destination

Tom Kenning and Ben Willis look at the latest developments in some of the most promising emerging PV markets worldwide. This issue features Pakistan, Tunisia and Uzbekistan.

Subsidy-free solar is changing the fortunes of the Spanish solar market, which had experienced the deepest of slumps. All the signs suggest the rest of Europe will be next, regardless of how the trade row plays out, writes John Parnell.

The global decarbonisation agenda and still-tumbling costs are sending oil and gas giants and traditional energy majors into the PV market, and in a big way. Liam Stoker investigates what that means for the international solar market.