Production & Innovation

Solar manufacturing cost decline

Manufacturing scale and process improvement keep lowering the cost of solar equipment, changing national energy investment economics and concentrating production among the few nations with large and efficient suppliers.

Attention Share over time

GINC's attention score, worldwide and in each region: 100 is this trend's own three-year average in each place, as an 8-week average.

Regional Attention

By region

This trend’s share of all the attention the 250 trends draw in each region, and its rank there.

Latin America & Caribbean

2.9%

1.6%

1.2%

0.61%

0.43%

0.39%

0.36%

0.17%

103

0.16%

0.13%

133

0.13%

166

By country

This trend’s share of all the attention the 250 trends draw in each country, and its rank there: the 12 highest of 49.

5.4%

3.2%

2.9%

2.8%

2.4%

1.4%

1.2%

0.98%

0.79%

0.74%

0.71%

0.68%

The ten trends most like this one: each one's share of attention over the period chosen, largest first, and over three years.

Renewable generation expansion

Batteries & energy storage

Advanced nuclear fission

Electrification of heat & industry

Hydrogen & low-carbon fuels

Reshoring & localised manufacturing

Carbon capture, utilisation & storage

Industrial policy competition

Distributed power

Manufacturing overcapacity

1.4%

1.1%

0.43%

0.30%

0.24%

0.18%

0.12%

0.10%

0.09%

0.04%

Scenario Relevance

A trend is relevant to a GINC Scenario where it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each trend is graded against every scenario on a seven-point scale from Nil to Critical.

Downside scenarios

Scenario	Relevance
S01 Critical trade divides into rival blocs Economic and trade	Moderate
S03 A regional war closes a globally important sea route Geopolitical and security	Moderate
S04 Hybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout Geopolitical and security	Moderate
S02 A global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets Economic and trade	Very low
S06 Two breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis Energy, climate and resources	Very low
S07 A major disaster disables the national economic core Energy, climate and resources	Very low
S09 A cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust Technology and infrastructure	Very low
S05 A disputed transfer of power breaks effective government Geopolitical and security	Nil
S08 An AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement Technology and infrastructure	Nil
S10 A novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity Health	Nil

Upside scenarios

Scenario	Relevance
S15 Cheap firm clean power becomes available at scale Energy, climate and resources	Very high
S13 A great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers Geopolitical and security	Moderate
S11 A creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity Economic and trade	Very low
S16 A validated farming package raises water-efficient output Energy, climate and resources	Very low
S12 A cross-regional market access compact redirects investment Economic and trade	Nil
S14 A verified Middle East settlement restores access Geopolitical and security	Nil
S17 AI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step Technology and infrastructure	Nil
S18 A public service platform reaches inclusive operation Technology and infrastructure	Nil
S19 Affordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness Health	Nil
S20 A live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence Health	Nil