For renewable energy, what is the most impressive news in 2014? What is the most influential change to the solar PV industry? As 2015 is just around the corner, EnergyTrend has compiled and written a series of review in four aspects – yearly overview, technology, policy and market research – to take a look back to the key moments in 2014 for the outlook to 2015.
Review 1: The Changing Green Energy Industry
- Focus Areas of 2014: New Energy, New Policy, New Strategy
1. Trade Wars
2. Carbon Emission Reduction
3. Altering Policies
4. Emerging Markets
- Companies Changes
Review 2: Advances in PV Technology
- High Efficiency Solar Cells Enters the Market
1. PERC Technology
2. N-Type Solar Cells
3. Other achievements in high efficiency cells
- BIPV Applications with Various Kinds of Solar Cells
- Summary of 2014’s Innovative Green Technologies
Review 3: Policy and Market Shift Lead to Changes in PV Development
- Policy and Industry
Incentives and Development – FiT and subsidy
FiT Policy
Subsidy Difficulty
- Solar Trade Wars
Review 4: EnergyTrend’s Keywords of the Year: Anti-Dumping and Countervailing, Capacity Expansion, and Emerging Markets
- Top 10 Keywords from EnergyTrend’s Research
Keywords of supply chain: capacity expansion, high efficiency products
Keywords of solar trade wars: China, Anti-dumping and countervailing , global allocation
Keywords of Energy Policy: National target, Feed-in Tariffs (FiT)
Keywords of Markets: distributed generation, company merger, emerging markets
- 2014~2015 Market Review and OutlookMarket analysisTrends in 2015
