Global solar demand on track for first annual decline in two decades

Global solar demand on track for first annual decline in two decades

At the SNEC 2026 conference in Shanghai, BloombergNEF (BNEF) lead solar analyst Jenny Chase re-iterated a sobering projection: solar deployment will slow this year before returning to a much more conservative growth trajectory. The defining question facing the industry now is clear: what trends will step up to pull solar growth back upward…

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/11/solar-slowing-bnef-asks-whats-next-for-the-industry/