Industry associations frequently are useful sources of news about market size and trends within an industry. The easiest way to identify potential publications from these sources is through using ProQuest Statistical Insight.
Search by topic or association name (if known).
Industry reports highlights from ProQuest Statistical Insight and OECD iLibrary, and other souces (IEEE, Nature), which frequently have specialized reports.
Shining Cities 2020: The Top U.S. Cities for Solar Energy by
A set of 15 documents and standards about smart power grids, including vision and road maps for 2030 and beyond.
World Energy Outlook by 
These resources cover background on industries or companies from a risk analysis perspective.
Cutter acts as a “global business-technology advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations leverage emerging technologies and the latest business management thinking to achieve competitive advantage and mission success” and UC San Diego has a subscription to its web contents, which includes expert research and analysis of industry trends in information technology. Cutter focuses on these practice areas:
Its website contents include reports, Cutter IT Journal, the Cutter blog, training and events. Some of Cutter’s content is free, but to see the industry reports that come with the UCSD membership, you must register for an account. Instructions are here - http://blink.ucsd.edu/sponsor/ITS/services/cutter.html. Please use your ucsd.edu email address to register.
Nexis Uni has nearly 1000 fulltext online newletters that provide constantly-updated analysis about the regulatory environment of business and Washington policy making. This timely content is uncovered simply by doing a News search on the Nexis Uni home page.
You also may limit your search specifically to these newsletters by path: Sources > Browse Sources > News > Newsletters or doing a title search in Find Soures, if you know the title you want.
Example: Inside Washington Publishers group contains 25+ titles on a range of topics, including – California Energy & Climate Report, Clean Energy Report, Health Exchange Alert, Inside Cal/EPA, Inside EPA Weekly Report, Inside Health Reform, Inside US-China Trade, Water Policy Report, and more.
Although you can search across all of them inside the Newsletters search in Nexis Uni, some titles have direct links:
