To us forecasters should forecast, not count the number of deals developers are working on. So that assumes you make an intelligent assessment of what will happen on the near horizon, and include it in any forecast. What Wood Mackenzie is clearly used to doing is asking everyone how they are doing, and the size of their pipeline, then confirming that in wider conversations and printing it as a forecast. It isn’t one. So this week when Wood Mackenzie upped its solar forecast for the US, it is because some stuff that was not in any prior pipeline, suddenly has to be counted, because now it is. We could not issue a forecast with this statement “Unexpectedly rapid growth in…