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USA: Shaken but stirred

IHS Markit analysis: Despite uncertainty generated by domestic policy reform, the U.S. will remain a top three global market for PV in 2018, which will see another year of decline before resuming growth in 2019, writes Camron Barati.

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pv magazine

15 Jan 2018

IHS Markit forecasts 2018 U.S. solar installations to continue the downward trend that begun last year, before bouncing back strongly in 2019 and beyond.

IHS Markit recently cut its PV installation forecast for the U.S. by over 6 GW from 2018 to 2021, primarily due to a weakened environment for utility-scale PV as new import tariffs threaten to negatively impact the economics of such projects. In the December 2017 update to its Global and North American PV demand forecasts, …

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