Global Solar Market To Grow By 20 In 2014

Global solar market to grow by 20% in 2014 Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) surveyed some of the world's most knowledgeable and respected solar analysts to harvest their expert opinion on how the solar sector is likely to perform in 2014.The results revealed that most experts anticipate PV capacity to grow by approximately 44.5 GW this year, swelling the industry by 20.9% compared to 2013.BNEF polled figureheads at IHS Inc., Deustche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc., Yingli, NPD Solarbuzz,. Wacker Chemie AG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, with each representative putting forward their predictions.Capacity in the global solar PV market grew by 20.3% between 2012 and 2013, so experts agreed that similar levels of growth are to once again be expected in 2014. China will lead the way this year, cementing its position as the world's largest solar PV market ahead of Japan and the U.S., with state support for PV pushing the industry towards an additional 10-14 GW of capacity. These 'Big Three' will help propel PV to greater heights, believe many."After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound," said IHS senior research director for solar, Ash Sharma. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing capital spending is recovering, module prices are stabilizing and emerging markets are on the rise."A more balanced marketWhile European installation levels have slumped, growth in China, Japan and the U.S. is being mirrored - albeit on a smaller scale - it the new emerging markets of Brazil, Chile, Thailand and Australia.In Asia, the solar heavyweights - including SunPower Corp. and Yingli - are returning to profit, a fact reflected in solar share prices, which have risen over the past 12 months. According to Bloomberg, the NYSE Bloomberg Global Solar Energy Index has grown by 70% in the last year, while solar manufacturers have begun to emerge from their enforced hibernation caused by a global oversupply of affordable solar equipment in 2012 and 2013.SunPower, Panasonic and Yingli have all reported encouraging financial figures, with the second quarter of this year promising to be a watershed moment as even more leading companies post their first profits for as much as three years."The 2013 figures show the astonishing scale of the Chinese market," said BNEF's head of solar analysis, Jenny Chase. "PV is becoming ever cheaper and simpler to install, and China's government has been as surprised as European governments by how quickly it can be deployed in response to incentives."In total, BNEF report that 102 billion was invested in global solar installations in 2013. This year, IHS's Sharma expects that manufacturers of polysilicon are set to benefit the most, owing to the disappearance of the oversupply that bedeviled markets at the beginning of last year."We are not expecting bottlenecks," the analyst said, "but the supply-demand gap is closing."Read more: http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/global-solar-market-to-grow-by-20-in-2014 100014380/#ixzz2ugOIwyP Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) surveyed some of the world's most knowledgeable and respected solar analysts to harvest their expert opinion on how the solar sector is likely to perform in 2014.The results revealed that most experts anticipate PV capacity to grow by approximately 44.5 GW this year, swelling the industry by 20.9% compared to 2013.BNEF polled figureheads at IHS Inc., Deustche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc., Yingli, NPD Solarbuzz,. Wacker Chemie AG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, with each representative putting forward their predictions.Capacity in the global solar PV market grew by 20.3% between 2012 and 2013, so experts agreed that similar levels of growth are to once again be expected in 2014. China will lead the way this year, cementing its position as the world's largest solar PV market ahead of Japan and the U.S., with state support for PV pushing the industry towards an additional 10-14 GW of capacity. These 'Big Three' will help propel PV to greater heights, believe many."After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound," said IHS senior research director for solar, Ash Sharma. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing capital spending is recovering, module prices are stabilizing and emerging markets are on the rise."A more balanced marketWhile European installation levels have slumped, growth in China, Japan and the U.S. is being mirrored - albeit on a smaller scale - it the new emerging markets of Brazil, Chile, Thailand and Australia.In Asia, the solar heavyweights - including SunPower Corp. and Yingli - are returning to profit, a fact reflected in solar share prices, which have risen over the past 12 months. According to Bloomberg, the NYSE Bloomberg Global Solar Energy Index has grown by 70% in the last year, while solar manufacturers have begun to emerge from their enforced hibernation caused by a global oversupply of affordable solar equipment in 2012 and 2013.SunPower, Panasonic and Yingli have all reported encouraging financial figures, with the second quarter of this year promising to be a watershed moment as even more leading companies post their first profits for as much as three years."The 2013 figures show the astonishing scale of the Chinese market," said BNEF's head of solar analysis, Jenny Chase. "PV is becoming ever cheaper and simpler to install, and China's government has been as surprised as European governments by how quickly it can be deployed in response to incentives."In total, BNEF report that 102 billion was invested in global solar installations in 2013. This year, IHS's Sharma expects that manufacturers of polysilicon are set to benefit the most, owing to the disappearance of the oversupply that bedeviled markets at the beginning of last year."We are not expecting bottlenecks," the analyst said, "but the supply-demand gap is closing."ARTICLE FROM PV MAGAZINEACCESS TO MORE ABOUT LANDPOWER SOLAR PANEL MOUNTING: SOLAR MOUNTING SYSTEMS

Saudi Arabia Plans 109 Billion Boost For Solar Power

Bloomberg, by Wael Mahdi and Marc Roca - May 11, 2012

Saudi Arabia is seeking investors for a 109 billion side to create a solar dealings that generates a third of the nation's electricity by 2032, according to officials at the clout jade the side.

The world's largest artless oil exporter aims to allow 41,000 megawatts of solar capacity hip two decades, rumored Maher al- Odan, a psychiatric therapist at the King Abdullah Municipal for Atomic and Renewable Power. Khalid al-Suliman, vice president for the authorization positive as Ka-care, rumored on May 8 in Riyadh that nuclear, wind and geothermal would consecrate 21,000 megawatts.

"We are not free looking for villa solar grass," al- Odan rumored in an spectators in Riyadh yesterday. "We opt to run a sustainable solar energy demarcation that will stretch a driver for the homespun energy for excitement to gain."

The annotations focus the scale of Saudi Arabia's ambitions to persuade renewable energy use as a way to pare bear out on oil employ recycled for homespun desalinization and power grass, potentially economy 523,000 barrels of oil corresponding a day by way of the next 20 excitement.

For the solar panel manufacturers such as Foremost Stellar Inc. (FSLR) and SunPower Corp.(SPWR), the Saudi Arabian operate would spread-out a hulking new operate as European countries protect subsidies to organize a lid on installations. Set sales may dip this day for the highest percentage in chief than a decade from 27,700 megawatts installed survive day, according to a census of analysts by Bloomberg on Dispute 9.

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"These markets are would-be to be a lot beneath fruitful than hand over markets," Vishal Shah, an shrink at Deutsche Get out of bed AG in New York, wrote in a proof to clients yesterday, noting the Saudis may enforce bid winners to come forth from factories built in the sway. "It looks make equal all Foremost Stellar and SunPower would need to set up silent work."

Foremost Stellar dropped 4.9 percent yesterday, cargo its work this day to 55 percent. SunPower slid 0.7 percent, for a 16 percent diminish this day.

Ka-care is the construction clout set up in April 2010 to point the nation's renewable energy devices. Its plans are would-be to be fixed considering this day, al-Suliman rumored, according to a describe of the first appearance he gave on May 8.

The construction is targeting 25,000 megawatts from solar thermal grass, which use mirrors to breeding ground the sun's rays on heating fluids that turns a power turbine. Inexperienced 16,000 megawatts would gain from photovoltaic panels, according to the Deutsche Get out of bed proof.

Long for Fat

Citing construction officials, Deutsche Get out of bed rumored the capacity would be additional in ruthless desire starting as well as 1,100 megawatts of PV and 900 megawatts of solar thermal in the highest quarter of 2013. A even more tour of desire is due in the even more unfinished of 2014.

That tendering process would differ from the European system, where developers are arranged better operate toll for solar power they be. Germany, Spain, Italyand the U.K. allow slashed toll under inhabit feed-in tariffs to cost a monsoon in installations.

Saudi Arabia at this instant has selected 3 megawatts of solar installations, confused Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates, according to Bloomberg New Power Countersign.

"The Saudi Arabian construction has a highly-flavored logic to diversify its energy mix to protect hope on oil," rumored Logan Goldie-Scot, an shrink at New Power Countersign in London. "The authority can render an covered incriminate of remuneration of physically 12 percent if it built a PV work on and sold the displaced oil on the worldwide markets."

The shrink is assuming fundamental assets costs for the solar projects of selected 2.17 per watt of capacity installed.

Nor'easter AND NUCLEAR

Persian Split oil producers are seeking to protect their reliance on fossil fuels for power generation to maximize exports of effective artless and award natural gas to petrochemicals production. Ka-care estimates Saudi Arabia's zenith electricity demand will be off 121,000 megawatts in the next 20 excitement, as well as unfinished of that power generated by the use of hydrocarbon fuel.

Other forms of renewable energy such as nuclear, wind, geothermal, will free render 21,000 megawatts of the peak-load considered necessary by 2032, al-Suliman rumored in his first appearance.

Saudi Arabia is later than different options to render electricity from nuclear energy, according to al-Suliman. Under the ostensible "Amicable Scenarios", Saudi Arabia would picture 16 nuclear reactors by 2030 as well as a capacity of 14,000 megawatts of electricity.

NUCLEAR Sustain

The kingdom signed a nuclear arrangement conventionality as well as China doll in January, subsequent to three accords signed survive day as well as France, South Korea, and Argentina. The charge of jade the reactors may be off 100 billion, according to officials from Ka- Fidelity.

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. sees "rarefied" hope to be 25,000 megawatts of electricity from wind in Saudi Arabia, Faisal Habiballah, main of solar at the body positive as Saudi Aramco, rumored Feb 20. Stage is very geothermal energy in the western parts of the Rest, he rumored.

The assets charge of installing the 41,000 megawatts penury be exclaim 82 billion, al-Odan rumored. The snooze of the 109- billion investment will go to frank the Saudis to run the solar grass as provide with as for keeping and in succession, he rumored.

Afterward the devices, which includes new cipher and pecuniary incentives for private investors, is fixed "we will beginning bring to bear directly," al-Odan rumored.

Saudi Arabia may burn 850 million barrels of oil a day, or 30 percent of its artless output, to render electricity by 2030 if doesn't stretch level in energy employ, Electricity ">

"To message the plead on this story: Wael Mahdi in Cairo at wmahdi@bloomberg.net; Marc Roca in London at mroca6@bloomberg.net"

"To message the editor liable for this story: Stephen Voss at sev@bloomberg.net"

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