Featured in Racing towards high performance – 06-2019

Possible scenarios

China’s role as a solar manufacturing powerhouse is unrivaled, and its end market continues to dictate global growth, writes SPV Market Research’s Paula Mints.

By

pv magazine

04 Jun 2019

Paula Mints is the Founder and Chief Analyst of global solar market research firm SPV Market Research. Paula began her career in 1997 with Strategies Unlimited. In 2005 she joined Navigant, where she continued as a Director in Energy Practice until October 2012, when she founded SPV Market Research. Paula’s areas of expertise include: global markets and applications for solar products, cell and module cost and price analysis, system and system component analysis (including inverters, trackers, and other BOS components, and trend analysis. | pvmagazine

In context with changes in the global market for solar deployment, there’s one market that really matters: China. In the best case scenario, demand increases in other markets as solar deployment in China floats gradually down to a market level that its government finds sustainable, while in the worst case China crashes before other markets …

Subscribe to get access to this content

Purchase a digital or print subscription to read this article in full. Choose the best subscription for you.