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Posted by Michael Barker on 05.31.2013 | Read comments
Developments and announcements regarding changes to Ontario’s FIT program have been accelerating over the past few months. The change process began with an announcement at the end of Q1’13 that a new price review process was being launched. The last time the FITprogram underwent...
Posted by Susanne von Aichberger on 05.29.2013 | Read comments
Italy is about to reach the end of its PV funding scheme Conto Energia, which so far resulted in a photovoltaic capacity of 17 GW. The current program, Conto Energia V (CE V), is scheduled to phase out as soon as the total annual funding costs reach €6.7 billion. This program is...
Posted by Christine Beadle on 05.24.2013 | Read comments
The trend for U.S. solar PV projects in the mid-size range (100 kW to 2 MW) has been changing considerably, from individual installations (on municipal or school buildings, for example) to multi-site projects. As opposed to previous single-site developments, project master plans...
Posted by Michael Barker on 04.15.2013 | Read comments
According to research in our Marketbuzz report, global PV demand is expanding both geographically – as new regions begin to install PV at much lower prices – and in terms of scope, as more regions are installing at higher annual volumes. Compared to 2010, when only a handful of...
Posted by Michael Barker on 04.09.2013 | Read comments
Recent findings in two NPD Solarbuzz reports, covering the Middle East & Africa and Emerging Asia-Pacific & Central Asia, indicate that both of these areas are set for considerable growth in 2013 with annual demand projected to hit 1 GW in each region. While this...
