Featured in Europe's PV heavyweights – 06-2014

Searching for a sustainable solar model

Europe: The European solar PV market is adjusting to a new reality of domestic strife, economic trouble and a systematic shake-up of support schemes designed to help the industry stride confidently forward. So how is the continent handling its place in the new world order? pv magazine investigates.

By

Ian Clover

27 May 2014

For all its well-publicized strengths, Europe’s glaring weakness is the regularity with which its nations fall out, fight or fragment. The 28 member states of the ostensibly harmonious European Union rarely reach unanimity, while the 18 members of the Eurozone see eye to eye as often as a giraffe and a tortoise. Geographically, the continent’s …

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