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Big Greek PV plans

Greece: With plenty of sunshine, generous and uncapped feed-in tariffs (FITs) and many islands relying on expensive diesel for electricity, Greece would seem to provide fertile grounds for photovoltaic (PV) growth. Based on these conditions, Lux research recently named it as one of the top-three most attractive countries for residential PV. However, regulatory bottlenecks and an almost-complete financial meltdown have cast a shadow over Greeces PV progress.

By

Jonathan Gifford

29 Sep 2011

At last month’s 26th EU PVSEC conference in Hamburg, Germany, the Greek Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou graced the stage at the opening proceedings. He announced a major development for the PV industry in Greece. Going by the name Project HELIOS, it amounted to a government supported PV installation program and schedule that would see ten …

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