Will The Sun Shine On Solar Stocks This Year? 4 Picks
Zacks Investment Research | Mar 24, 2019 09:43PM ET
The U.S. solar market performance was marred by a few factors in 2018. Trump’s sanction of 201 tariffs, which levied a 30% import tax on solar panels, was one of the primary concerns. China dealt a heavier blow by significantly cutting subsidies for its solar projects.
Other factors like big tender cancellations in India, feed-in tariff cut policy made by Japan and lack of clarity around the memorandum of understanding between Saudi Arabia and SoftBank’s Vision Fund for 200 gigawatts of solar PV with storage acted as deterrents for the solar industry, which lost 26.9% last year.
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Will the Solar Market Bounce Back?
Things are expected to change for the better for the solar market in 2019. A sneak peak in to the market’s projections for the current year can substantiate that.
Per a projection by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. electric power sector is set to add more than 4 GW of new solar capacity in 2019, with electricity generation from utility-scale solar generating units projected to grow 10% this year.
Factors Driving Solar Growth
Deployment of utility-scale projects remains a major growth driver for the U.S. solar market. Per a recent EIA report, 69% of solar generation was utility-scale in 2018. To this end, Wood Mackenzie has lifted the utility solar forecast for 2019 from 6.9 to 7.2 gigawatt dc.
Notably, declines in module costs due to a shift in Chinese feed-in tariff policy are driving additional procurement of utility-scale solar projects.
Other major factors expected to drive solar growth within U.S. are the technological advances made for battery storage and grid operators’ expanding toolset for renewable power integration.
Our Choices
In view of the aforementioned prospects, we have handpicked three players from the Zacks Original post
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