Solar PV market: A freight train that can’t be stopped
Thanks to fellow blogster Rob Hyndman for alerting me to this New York Times article this morning on the surging share prices of publicly traded solar PV companies in recent months, years.
“Today, tumult in oil-producing places like the Middle East and Venezuela is roiling markets. Strong demand for electricity has contributed to increases in the prices of coal and natural gas. And these dire developments have been a boon for companies that make devices such as silicon wafers and rooftop panels that convert solar energy.”
It’s another decent overview of why these stocks are attracting so much investor interest these days.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca