Are solar and wind power prices rising?

In the past two years prices for solar and wind power received by developers in America under power-purchase agreements have increased by nearly 60%, according to figures from LevelTen Energy, an energy marketplace (see chart 5).

Are solar cells a Lost Cause?

Silicon Valley and venture capitalists everywhere have fallen in love with the virtues and the promise of new catalysts and electrodes. Innovations in solar cells no longer seem like a lost cause. Startups are boasting radical new technologies for energy storage and carbon-free processes for making chemicals, steel, and cement.

Could solar power halt the industry's breakneck growth?

A few lonely academics have been warning for years that solar power faces a fundamental challenge that could halt the industry’s breakneck growth. Simply put: the more solar you add to the grid, the less valuable it becomes.

Did the solar-power industry fly too close to the Sun?

Photos by Andrej Lišakov/Unsplash, Chuttersnap/Unsplash, and KangeStudio/Getty Images Plus. To take it from recent headlines, it seems as though the global solar-power industry, following half a decade of record growth and governmental investment, flew just a bit too close to the sun.

Is the solar sector still booming?

On a wider scale, the solar sector is still ballooning and providing record amounts of green energy worldwide. Despite its manufacturing woes, Germany’s nationwide solar installation through 2023 beat expectations. Greece is well on the way to tripling its solar capacity by the end of the decade.

Are solar panels a bad investment?

Meanwhile, prices for essential solar-panel elements, like silver, remain high, as do interest rates and disaster-insurance premiums, causing nervousness among potential investors. It all sounds pretty bad! Is solar doomed? I am happy to report that the era of harnessing power from the sun is not yet over.