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ENDNOTES 02 MARKET AND INDUSTRY TRENDS - SOLAR PV<br />

38 Based on data from IEA PVPS, op. cit. note 1, and from Becquerel<br />

Institute, April 2016.<br />

39 Based on data for the United States and for Canada. See other<br />

endnotes in this section for full references.<br />

40 Canadian Solar Industries Association, provided by Masson,<br />

op. cit. note 2; IEA PVPS, op. cit. note 1, p. 18. Note that Canada<br />

officially reports data in AC; these sources converted data to DC<br />

for consistency across countries.<br />

41 The United States added 7,260 MW of solar PV for a total of<br />

25.6 GW, from GTM Research and US Solar Energy Industries<br />

Association (SEIA), US Solar Market Insight: 2015 Year-in-Review,<br />

Executive Summary (Washington, DC: March 2016), p. 4; added<br />

5,942 MW of natural gas in 2015, from US Federal Energy<br />

Regulatory Commission (FERC), “Office of Energy Projects<br />

Energy Infrastructure Update for December 2015,” www.<br />

ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/2015/dec-infrastructure.pdf; and<br />

added 6,573.2 GW of natural gas, from US Energy Information<br />

Administration (EIA), Electric Power Monthly with Data for<br />

December 2015 (Washington, DC: February 2016), Table 6.1, www.<br />

eia.gov/electricity/monthly/pdf/epm.pdf. Note that both FERC<br />

and EIA report lower capacity additions for solar PV and wind<br />

power because they omit plants with capacity below 1 MW. See<br />

also GTM Research and SEIA, op. cit. this note.<br />

42 GTM Research and SEIA, op. cit. note 41, p. 4.<br />

43 PV Market Alliance website, op. cit. note 5; ITC also from IHS,<br />

cited in Katie Fehrenbacher, “There is a flood of solar farms in<br />

the US that are racing to beat a government deadline,” Fortune,<br />

8 June 2015, https://fortune.com/2015/06/08/theres-a-flood-ofsolar-farms-in-the-u-s-that-are-racing-to-beat-a-governmentdeadline/.<br />

The federal ITC will remain at 30% through 2019 and<br />

then step down to 26% in 2020, 22% in 2021 and 10% in 2022 for<br />

all projects but direct-owned residential, for which it will expire;<br />

projects that commence construction can qualify, from GTM<br />

Research and SEIA, op. cit. note 41, p. 7.<br />

44 GTM Research and SEIA, op. cit. note 41, p. 10. The US residential<br />

market was up 66% over 2014, and 2015 was the fourth<br />

consecutive year with annual growth of over 50%, from idem, pp.<br />

6, 10. Direct ownership and new loan products from Nicole Litvak,<br />

“US residential solar financing 2015–2020,” Greentech Media,<br />

29 July 2015, http://www.greentechmedia.com/research/report/<br />

us-residential-solar-financing-2015-2020. It also is driven by<br />

innovative business models, such as third-party ownership, from<br />

SolarPower Europe, op. cit. note 2, p. 20.<br />

45 An estimated 4,150 MW of utility solar was added in 2015 for a<br />

total exceeding 19.8 GW, from GTM Research and SEIA, op. cit.<br />

note 41, p. 6.<br />

46 California and North Carolina from Ibid., p. 9. Hawaii from the<br />

following sources: Herman K. Trabish, “17% of Hawaiian electric<br />

customers now have rooftop solar,” Utility Dive, 1 February<br />

2016, http://www.utilitydive.com/news/17-of-hawaiian-electriccustomers-now-have-rooftop-solar/413014/;<br />

Duane Shimogawa,<br />

“Hawaiian Electric has 77,000 installed solar PV systems across<br />

Hawaii,” Bizjournals, 28 January 2016, http://www.bizjournals.<br />

com/pacific/news/2016/01/28/hawaiian-electric-has-77-000-<br />

installed-solar-pv.html; an estimated 12% of all homes in Hawaii<br />

had solar, from Brian Korgaonkar, “How Hawaii has empowered<br />

energy storage and forever changed the US solar industry,”<br />

Renewable Energy World, 21 December 2015, http://www.<br />

renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/12/how-hawaiihas-empowered-energy-storage-and-forever-changed-theu-s-solar-industry.html.<br />

Most capacity added (87%) was in the<br />

top 10 states, from GTM Research and SEIA, op. cit. note 41, p.<br />

7; however, growth is becoming widespread due to improving<br />

economics, from Miriam Makyhoun, Ryan Edge, and Nick<br />

Esch, Utility Solar Market Snapshot: Sustained Growth in 2014<br />

(Washington, DC: Solar Electric Power Association, May 2015),<br />

https://www.solarelectricpower.org/media/322918/solar-marketsnapshot-2014.pdf.<br />

47 This is true especially in Texas and the US Southeast, where some<br />

utilities are replacing retired coal plants with utility-scale solar PV<br />

and combined-cycle natural gas, from GTM Research and SEIA,<br />

op. cit. note 41, p. 11. Some utilities have begun to report that they<br />

approached solar PV as a least cost resource, from Makyhoun,<br />

Edge, and Esch, op. cit. note 46, p. 10. See also Becky Beetz,<br />

“Solar becoming ‘least-cost option’ for US utilities,” PV Magazine,<br />

5 May 2015, http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/<br />

solar-becoming-least-cost-option-for-us-utilities_100019329#ax<br />

zz3dMAG1BMk.<br />

48 GTM Research, The Next Wave of US Utility Solar, cited in<br />

Colin Smith, “What drives utility solar growth in a post-ITCextension<br />

world?” Greentech Media, 24 March 2016, http://www.<br />

greentechmedia.com/articles/read/What-Drives-Utility-Solar-<br />

Growth-in-a-Post-ITC-Extension-World.<br />

49 Establish own programmes from the following sources: Julia<br />

Pyper and Eric Wesoff, “Georgia Power is launching its own<br />

rooftop solar business,” Greentech Media, 1 July 2015, http://<br />

www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Georgia-Power-is-<br />

Launching-its-Own-Rooftop-Solar-Business; Ray Henry and<br />

Susan Montoya, “Big utilities enter market for small rooftop<br />

solar,” Associated Press, 29 September 2015, http://bigstory.<br />

ap.org/article/ce51b24b29da496c8e0e63f9ef712263/bigutilities-enter-market-small-rooftop-solar;<br />

Krysti Shallenberger,<br />

“Utilities are getting ready for life with distributed generation<br />

– report,” Environment & Energy News, 11 August 2015, http://<br />

www.eenews.net/energywire/2015/08/11/stories/1060023259;<br />

Herman K. Trabish, “New software offerings help utilities boost<br />

community solar programs,” Utility Dive, 16 July 2015, http://<br />

www.utilitydive.com/news/new-software-offerings-helputilities-boost-community-solar-programs/401498/;<br />

Kristi<br />

E. Swartz, “Southern Co. goes all in on solar, storage, smart<br />

homes,” Environment & Energy News, 28 May 2015, http://<br />

www.eenews.net/energywire/2015/05/28/stories/1060019211;<br />

“Major Texas coal power producer hops on solar train,”<br />

Environment & Energy News, 9 September 2015, http://www.<br />

eenews.net/energywire/2015/09/09/stories/1060024361.<br />

Fight for change from Krysti Shallenberger, “Utility adapts to<br />

the future, but battles others for market share,” Environment<br />

& Energy News, 14 September 2015, http://www.eenews.net/<br />

energywire/2015/09/14/stories/1060024590.<br />

50 Shayle Kann, “Executive Briefing: The Future of US Solar - Getting<br />

to the Next Order of Magnitude,” Greentech Media, November<br />

2015, p. 15, https://www.greentechmedia.com/research/report/<br />

exec-briefing-the-future-of-us-solar. Regulatory disputes and<br />

more on the net metering debate from, for example: Paula<br />

Mints, “Notes from the solar underground: the US utility war<br />

against metering,” Renewable Energy World, 23 February 2016,<br />

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/02/<br />

notes-from-the-solar-underground-the-us-utility-war-againstnet-metering;<br />

Paula Mints, “Fifteen things to watch out for in<br />

2016,” Renewable Energy World, 8 January 2016, http://www.<br />

renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/01/fifteen-things-towatch-out-for-in-2016.html;<br />

Shallenberger, op. cit. note 50; GTM<br />

Research and SEIA, op. cit. note 41, p. 8. For more on Nevada<br />

and impacts on solar PV market and companies, see also Davide<br />

Savenije, “NV Energy hits net metering cap ahead of schedule,<br />

adding fuel to solar debate,” Utility Dive, 24 August 2015, http://<br />

www.utilitydive.com/news/nv-energy-hits-net-metering-capahead-of-schedule-adding-fuel-to-solar-deb/404468/.<br />

51 Nicole Litvak, Solar Research, cited in Shayle Kann, “The<br />

ITC awakens: what the extension of a key federal tax<br />

credit means for solar,” Greentech Media, 22 December<br />

2015, http://www.greentechmedia.com/squared/read/<br />

gtm-research-roundtable-the-itc-awakens.<br />

52 Three years of decline from Masson, op. cit. note 2; 2011<br />

peak based on 22.4 GW from EPIA, Market Report 2013<br />

(Brussels: March 2014), p. 4, http://www.epia.org/uploads/<br />

tx_epiapublications/Market_Report_2013_02.pdf; Photovoltaics<br />

market: Europe is in decline, but Asia is booming,” Sun &<br />

Wind Energy, 22 July 2014, http://www.sunwindenergy.com/<br />

photovoltaics/photovoltaics-market-europe-decline-asiabooming.<br />

Policy shift and general uncertainty from Michael<br />

Schmela, SolarPower Europe, “SolarPower Webinar: Market<br />

report and solar developments in Europe,” 23 March 2016,<br />

https://youtu.be/_wVUpCAN9BU, and from SolarPower Europe,<br />

op. cit. note 2.<br />

53 Based on data from Becquerel Institute, 2016, and from IEA PVPS,<br />

op. cit. note 1. The EU added 7,572 MW; all of Europe added 8.1<br />

GW for a total of 96.9 GW, from SolarPower Europe, op. cit. note 2.<br />

54 UK figure of 3.7 GW from SolarPower Europe, op. cit. note 2, and<br />

from Masson, op. cit. note 2. The UK added 3,537 MW according<br />

to preliminary data from UK Department of Energy & Climate<br />

Change (DECC), “Energy Trends Section 6 – Renewables”<br />

(London: March 2016), https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/<br />

system/uploads/attachment_data/file/511939/Renewables.<br />

pdf. Germany added 1,355 MW for a total of 39,698 MW,<br />

from Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi),<br />

214

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