Photovoltaic Energy Storage Stock Code Query Network

What is the US large-scale solar photovoltaic database?

The U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database provides the locations and array boundaries of U.S. ground-mounted photovoltaic facilities, with capacity of 1 megawatt or more.

Are solar photovoltaic map services free?

Map services and data downloaded from the U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database are free and in the public domain.

How are PV facility records collected?

The PV facility records are collected from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), position-verified and digitized from aerial imagery, and checked for quality. EIA facility data are supplemented with additional attributes obtained from public sources.

Will California's New PV rules affect PV-plus-storage systems?

In the longer term, analysts expect the new rules to constrain PV-only deployment in California and ultimately spur the deployment of PV-plus-storage systems, which have higher upfront costs (Wood Mackenzie and SEIA 2022b). Our interviews also indicated market and policy trends affecting system costs between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023.

Should investors worry about solar stocks?

On top of those issues, investors also have to worry about rather pragmatic concerns about liquidity and access to solar stocks. Take GCL Technology Holdings Ltd. (ticker: GCPEF), a dominant Chinese company that is ostensibly larger than many U.S.-based solar firms.

What is the IRA & how does it affect PV installations?

The IRA, which was passed into law in August 2022, created incentives for domestic PV manufacturing and deployment that analysts expect to drive significant increases in U.S. PV installations and use of domestically manufactured components (Feldman et al. 2022).