Solarbuzz U.S. companies to disclose, the United States is non-residential solar battery projects over 17GW. Reduction of feed-in tariffs in Europe subsidies, the U.S. surge in the project, “has become the expected growth rate is higher than any other region of the world markets in the world” .
Solarbuzz said the U.S. plans to set up a capacity of 50kW ~ 500MW system, scheduled second half of 2011 to 2015 a total of 601 projects installed. 17GW of projects divided by state, California, about 62%. The reason is that the state set “renewable portfolio standard (RenewablePortfolioStandard: RPS)” target up to 33%.
In the 17GW of projects, the development of the top 12 companies accounted for 49% ratio. Solar cell modules have been selected from the project point of view, the top three suppliers of modules for the U.S. First Solar, SunPower and Suntech China power the United States. Top-ranking supplier of inverters for the U.S. AdvancedEnergyIndustries and the United States SatconTechnology.
According to reports, the U.S. solar module factory supply price in the past four months have fallen sharply. Its influence has begun to spread to large-scale projects the price. 1MW system projects the average price above $ 4.50 / W , and 32% of project price $ 4 / W (DC output) below.
