Featured in All in the chemistry – 02-2013

Local knowledge the key

Japan utility-scale: As Japans market has recently been kick-started, access to cost-effective finance coupled with the right choice of local partner will be crucial for international players in converting this market buzz into projects on the ground. Yukinobu Uchida and Ragna Schmidt-Haupt from global renewable energy consultancy GL Garrad Hassan provide insights into market entry.

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pv magazine

11 Feb 2013

Renewable energy is political and solar energy particularly so. PV’s relatively quick development and installation times mean that changes to support regimes can boost or dampen deployment rates far more quickly than is the case for other renewable technologies. With development pace slowing in traditional European markets and a global over-capacity in module supply, the …

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