Featured in Keen Korea – 01-2011

Crash in its infancy

France: With new installations totaling 500 to 550 megawatts, 2010 was the most successful year in the history of the still young French solar market. Now, however, the French Government is putting further growth on hold. During a three-month suspension of installations, it will revise the regulations for incentives. An annual cap of 500 megawatts and new incentives for systems building integrated or not are under debate.

The last solar energy conference of the year took place in mid-December in Montpellier, located in the South of France. It was a beautiful, sunny day with mild temperatures of 17 degrees Celsius. While these were near perfect conditions for a photovoltaic (PV) conference, visitors seemed frozen in shock. Shortly before the conference, former Prime …

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