Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:06 am | Edgar A. Gunther | 4 Comments »
Navigant Consulting’s Bearish 2009 Photovoltaic Backcast
Paula Mints reiterates an anemic 4.6 GigaWatt Photovoltaic (PV) demand forecast for 2009.
A preponderance of news and financial reports confirm 2009 PV demand is flat to up from 2008.
Last week per “Solar Market Declines for First Time Ever” by Ucilia Wang for Greentech Media:
Solar cell and panel makers are likely to sell about 4.6 gigawatts this year, compared with about 5.5 gigawatts in 2008, said Paula Mints, principal analyst at Navigant Consulting, at the Solar Energy Investment and Finance Summit in San Francisco.
The same day, iSuppli capitulated (please see my EU PVSEC: iSuppli 2009 Photovoltaic Forecast Wrong post) and raised their 2009 PV demand forecast to 5.2 GigaWatts (GW) with “Solar Panel Glut Peaks in Mid-2009”. Read More >>
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