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The future is subsidy free

The pitfalls of riding the ‘solar coaster,’ with boom-and-bust cycles dictated by government policies, are well known. Given this, it should come as little surprise that subsidy-free PV in Europe is a theme for which there is a particular appetite. The Future PV Roundtable and The smarter E Europe 2019 event tackled this theme. The first part of the event focused on the utility scale, and the following are some of the key takeaways.

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Jonathan Gifford

05 Jul 2019

“This is actually a disruptive moment for the branch,” exclaimed Benedikt Ortmann during his presentation at the Future PV Roundtable at Intersolar 2019. “It is only a matter of time for us to push the costs further down, then we can go into areas where the irradiation is less and we can see grid parity …

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