Featured in Contactless prowess – 06-2011

Chinas FIT-fed boom

China: The country should be the perfect place for BIPV or Building Integrated Photovoltaics. Not only is China the production and export champion in photovoltaics, but its building drive dwarfs any other market around the world.

By

Eckhart Gouras

31 May 2011

Add to that the fact that China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, plus a big importer of energy, and the situation is tailor-made for the rapid deployment of BIPV. BIPV is best suited to new construction and this is exactly the kind of building taking place in China. The numbers are phenomenal. …

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