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8 trends that will define the market in 2019
This complimentary whitepaper examines the top PV trends for 2019 that will shape and re-define this dynamic marketplace for the year ahead.
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Global Grid Transformation ESNA 2018: Facilitating the advancement of the energy storage industry
The range of energy storage technologies creates a diverse toolkit to tackle challenges created by energy sector transformation.
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Solar Services – Video Overview
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May 07, 2019
A total of 4.3 gigawatts (GW) of grid-connected energy storage will be deployed globally in 2019 – annual installations will grow to more than 10.6 GW by 2025. Annual grid-connected energy storage hardware revenues are projected to grow from $3.7 billion in 2018 to $8.4 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12 percent.
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April 25, 2019
The IHS Markit energy storage team attended and presented at the United States’ Energy Storage Association (ESA) Annual Energy Storage Conference & Expo (ESACon) in Phoenix from 16-18 April 2019. As one of the major industry conferences in the United States, ESACon raised a range of pivotal market and policy topics.
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Offers comprehensive tracking and analysis of the downstream PV market. Market trackers as well as online project and integrator trackers cover solar system installations, market potential, and impactful government policies driving downstream solar activity around the world.
Presenting a wide-ranging detailed examination of the market for energy storage systems across all key global segments of the industry. Databases and reports cover small and large-scale renewable integration, grid support, and behind-the-meter storage.
Providing a detailed and accurate view across all key areas of the growing market for energy storage in North America. Regularly updated, detailed forecasts for the industry are accompanied by reports, databases and insights to help provide additional detail on key topics and market segments.
Delivering essential information on the market for traditional inverters, microinverters, and power optimizers. Market trackers and reports cover supplier market share, shipments, revenues, pricing, policies, and demand for over 20 countries enabling comprehensive visibility into the global PV inverter market.
Detailed analysis and tracking of global PV supply and demand. Four market trackers give access to all aspects of supply, demand, prices, capacity, equipment spending, suppliers, technology roadmaps, and much more.
This service provides the most comprehensive research in the industry on smart utility meters; investigating the most important trends, drivers, and challenges affecting the current and future market for metering solutions.
This Service provides current and credible forecasts and analysis for installed PV capacity in North America, O&M and EPC coverage, as well as tracking and analysing project activity and Balance of System suppliers in North America. The research also includes detailed analysis of the supply chain, with coverage including module and inverter data.
This premium intelligence service provides complete upstream and downstream coverage of the solar industry, with ongoing data, analysis and insights throughout the year.
Covering both UPS hardware and its service and support, provides industry-leading detail and comprehensive analysis across a number of key industry segments.
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May 20, 2019
Each PV Country Profile provides in-depth analysis on the latest PV market development in each country, including incentives, tenders and other drivers or barriers. The study reviews the competitive landscape as a complement to the PV Projects Pipeline Tracker and the Solar Deal Tracker.Subscribers Only
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United States to install 10 GWdc of PV paired with energy storage from 2019 to 2023| May 10, 2019This report provides an overview of the market opportunity for utility-scale solar-plus-storage in the United States. Key elements of the report include a review of the current market situation, regional market drivers, analysis of the project development pipeline, solar-plus-storage project design trends, system costs and levelized cost of energy projections, and analysis of project case studies.Subscribers Only
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May 08, 2019
This first generation report gives an introductory overview of the IoT space as applied to the PV Inverter market, including an outline of the current IoT product offerings from the leading PV Inverter vendors for residential and commercial applications.Subscribers Only
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May 13, 2019
The PV Inverter Market Tracker is the only detailed and reliable assessment of the global market for solar inverters. The tracker provides new forecasts and supplier market shares for the global inverter market every quarter, highlighting the opportunities and challenges that will face inverter makers over the next 5-10 years.Subscribers Only
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May 10, 2019
The PV Projects Pipeline Tracker is published as part of the Downstream PV Intelligence Service to provide the latest data on the pipelines of PV developers and EPC companies, as tracked by IHS Markit. The pipeline excel sheet and visualisation replace the section dedicated to PV developer and EPC pipelines in the Emerging PV Markets Tracker. For each major company, the tracker shows MW by completed, being installed, under contract and not-yet-contracted pipeline, specified for each covered country.Subscribers Only
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May 08, 2019
The PV Suppliers Tracker contains detailed data on the performance of leading companies in the PV module supply chain. It provides a detailed database of capacity, production, utilization and shipments for polysilicon, wafer, cell and module suppliers.Subscribers Only
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A global perspective on how energy storage markets are developing in emerging economies| April 26, 2019Senior Analyst Julian Jansen presented at the ESNA Webinar on emerging energy storage markets in April, 2019. This presentation provided a summary of the IHS Markit global outlook for energy storage. It further evaluated opportunities and challenges in emerging markets.Subscribers Only
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CIREC Week April 2019| April 12, 2019Presented at CIREC Week on April 4, 2018, this presentation provides a high-level overview of the outlook for utility-scale solar in Latin America for the 2019 - 2023 period, with a focus on the Chilean PV market.Subscribers Only
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Solarplaza Solar Asset Management North America Conference 2019, San Francisco| April 01, 2019Presented at Solarplaza’s Solar Asset Management North America Conference 2019 in San Francisco, this presentation provides a high-level overview of the outlook for solar and solar+storage in the United States.Subscribers Only
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April 04, 2019
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market is set to bounce back from single-digit growth in 2018 to 25 percent growth in 2019, reaching 129 gigawatts of solar installations, according to global business information provider IHS Markit (NASDAQ: INFO).
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March 18, 2019
There are a wide variety of initiatives, policies and mandates around the world designed to promote energy efficiency.
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December 17, 2018
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, will again host and judge the Innovation Awards at ShowStoppers at the media reception at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Associate Director, Solar & Energy Storage
Sam Wilkinson is a Associate Director for the Solar and Energy Storage Research group at IHS Markit.
Case Studies
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Global Chemical Company Strengthens Leadership in Solar Energy Sector with Strategic Market Insights
One of the world’s largest chemical companies was well positioned at the forefront of the solar energy sector – where it was providing essential materials to manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells – and its leadership team wanted to expand that market footprint.
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