Featured in Track and Yield – 07-2017

Turmoil in residential solar

U.S. residential: After years of steady, relentless growth, the U.S. residential solar market is struggling with challenges on both the policy and customer acquisition fronts. And as the market diversifies away from California and the Northeast, the future is far from clear.

The first quarter of 2017 was not an easy time for the U.S. residential solar market. Overall, the volume of solar deployed fell 17% from the first quarter of 2016 and 11% from the fourth quarter, as the first time in recent memory that market volumes have fallen on both a year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter basis.At …

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