Overview

Easily accessible via PHOTON Consulting’s extensive online research and data platform, Solar Updates is the source for accurate, up-to-date information and analysis on solar PV prices, project announcements, demand summaries and supply information by company.

The solar price index provides timely perspective into the global pricing environment with a silicon price index, wafer price index, cell price index, c-Si module price index, thin film module price index and inverter price index. Solar Updates serves as a real-time indicator for the complex developments in the global PV sector. The indices include unbiased pricing data gathered from manufacturers, traders, buyers, wholesalers and installers, based on disclosed transactions collected under nondisclosure agreements. Reported pricing is verified against contracts and purchase orders at regular intervals.  

The pricing indices in Solar Updates are the industry’s price-setting mechanism for variable PV contracts and agreements and widely used in spot transactions by many of the PV sector’s leading and emerging companies.

Solar Updates is comprised of price points from manufacturers and buyers all over the world, with over 50 transactions each week for each step of the supply chain.  Supported by over 275 members of the PHOTON team, the product has unparalleled quality and transparency leveraging PHOTON Consulting’s deep network and relationships in the PV industry.