Featured in Store for more – 05-2012

Outback applications

Australia: A lot has been made about PVs ability to cause utilities and grid administrators headaches. However, in the wide open spaces of Australia, these same utilities are starting to look to PV as being a valuable ally in meeting some of the challenges that they face in supplying power to remote and rural locations. pv magazine heads off the beaten track to see how PV is increasingly being put to work amongst the red dirt of the Australian outback.

By

Jonathan Gifford

07 May 2012

Despite being known as the sunburned country, in Australia some parts of the PV industry have been operating under dark clouds. Feed-in tariff (FIT) schemes, which were administrated on a state-to-state basis, did not wind back remuneration in keeping with module price reductions. They then found the programs vastly oversubscribed and installed capacity reaching quotas …

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