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The lure of larger PV projects

Ecobuild 2013: Everybody likes big solar projects as they gobble up the MWs and the UK is no exception as it girds itself to install as much as 20 GW of PV by 2020. This is the upper end of a target set out within the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Renewable Energy Roadmap at the end of 2012.

There has been a shakeout in the U.K. PV industry. “The industry is considerably smaller since 2011. There are certainly fewer distributors and wholesalers in the market,” observes Stefan Liedtke, Managing Director of Renusol, a Germany-based supplier of PV mounting systems, at Ecobuild 2013 held in London in March. The show provides one of the …

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