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High density solar

PV in urban Taiwan: Being a small and partially mountainous island, Taiwan’s ground-mounted solar sector is naturally limited. However, conditions are not necessarily more favorable for solar up on the rooftops of this crowded country, as Rhea Tsao of Taiwanese solar analysts Energy Trend explains.

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pv magazine

07 Nov 2017

The cityscape of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, illustrates the challenges facing solar in such high density urban environments. These challenges range from jointly owned rooftops and illegal structures to shading and high winds found at such high altitudes.

pv magazine: Taiwan is a highly urbanized environment with a lot of rooftops, but the residential market is markedly underdeveloped. Why, and what can be done to advance this market? Rhea Tsao: The residential market in Taiwan is actually uncountable because the scale is too small and the official statistics don’t even measure it at …

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