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The Solar Market Continues to Defy Forecasts

As the old saying goes, it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. And hindsight shows forecasts about the solar market are tricky.

 

Frost & Sullivan, a large market research firm, recently put out a report on the global solar PV market from 2014 to 2020 that lined up almost eerily with a late-2013 report from Navigant Research, a cleantech market research firm.

The Frost & Sullivan report predicts that the global solar PV market will more than double in size between 2013 and 2020 to become a $137 billion market; Navigant Research says it will be worth $134 billion by 2020.

With such similar forecasts, one might think the market is fairly easy to predict. That’s hardly the case…

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  Zachary Shahan
Zachary Shahan
Director of the CleanTechnica and Planetsave