Events

Speaking at the recent IRENA conference, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said the accelerated deployment of renewable energy sources could play a pivotal role in overcoming the country’s current economic troubles.

The agency’s first three published reports focus on PV performance and the impact of PV module failure of both crystalline silicon and thin-film technologies.

Interview: Markus Elsässer, CEO of Intersolar Europe organizer Solar Promotion, discusses the expected trends and highlights at this year’s event.

A “quiet revolution” is taking place in the country’s PV industry: a number of factors are coming together that will result in a boom in PV energy storage solutions, according to Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI).

Organized by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the event explored RES applications for the energy-intensive tourism sectors of island nations struggling with the high costs of imported fossil fuel.

The market is on the path for growth but still faces major hurdles: European equipment and inverter manufacturers in particular face intensifying Chinese competition, while the country’s ambitious targets won’t be reached unless the government adapts its distributed PV power policy.

Despite some lower estimates by industry sources, IHS is standing by its earlier forecast for distributed PV installations in China this year.

More Chinese equipment and inverter manufacturers presented their products than previous years amidst growing optimism that China’s young distributed PV power market will soon take off.

PV players attending the SNEC PV Power Expo in Shanghai say a lack of regulations covering subsidies for distributed solar will keep installations from meeting the ambitious goal this year.

China has set ambitious goals for the further deployment of PV, but lags behind in installed distributed power. Only 188 MW of distributed PV were installed in first quarter 2014.