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Oil price sends solar into freefall

THE plummeting oil price has claimed an unlikely victim – the solar industry – leading an Australian analyst to slam global investors for wrongly linking solar with oil when the relationship between oil and electricity generation is tiny.

Anthony Barich

Brent crude oil has fallen 34% since breaking the psychological $US100/barrel level in September, with the Ardour Solar Index falling by the same amount over that period. The Ardour Solar Index includes...

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