Measures to control the spread of coronavirus in China could significantly affect the country’s storage and solar sectors, according to analysts — but the impact on the United States’ power sector is mixed. Eight provinces in China announced work stoppages because of the coronavirus, including the Jiangsu province, which houses several solar manufacturing campuses, according to notes from ROTH Capital Senior Research Analyst Philip Shen, leading to possible shortages that could cause solar ecosystem pricing to go up in the near term. Meanwhile, analysts at Wood Mackenzie estimate that the country’s battery storage production capacity could drop by 10% — or 26 GWh — of earlier forecasts for 2020. The impacts of the virus on China’s power sector depend on how long the outbreak continues and how far it spreads, Josiah Neeley, senior fellow of energy policy at the R Street Institute, told Utility Dive. If it […]