Featured in Search for buoyancy – 10-2017

Hit the ground running

Taiwan market update: Tumultuous but promising times in Taiwan as ground-mounted activity looks set to begin in earnest, but Taiwanese cell makers continue to struggle despite local demand slowly beginning to pick up.

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pv magazine

04 Oct 2017

The vast majority of Taiwan’s installed solar PV capacity is on rooftops, but developers are aware that the ground-mounted sector needs to be developed if Taiwan is to meet its 20 GW by 2025 solar goal. | Image: pv magazine/Tim Ferry

In Taiwan’s rural Yunlin County, traditionally one of the island’s least developed areas, solar power installers were once met with suspicion by the region’s mostly elderly farmers, most of whom were wary of this alien technology and the urbane salespeople pushing it. After years of outreach, however, “they love us here now,” says Slash Chiu, …

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