Magazine Archive 04-2015

Turkey: Geopolitics, a burgeoning economy, lots of sunshine, and cheap technology are driving Turkey’s solar PV sector, which is set to expand in the near future. But 2015 doesn’t seem to be part of this future yet, with the Turkish PV sector having to fight several battles, bureaucracy being the main one.

Turkey: Geopolitics, a burgeoning economy, lots of sunshine, and cheap technology are driving Turkey’s solar PV sector, which is set to expand in the near future. But 2015 doesn’t seem to be part of this future yet, with the Turkish PV sector having to fight several battles, bureaucracy being the main one.

Off-grid solutions: Along the ShuGang highway from HuangDao to JiaoNan, 122 remote monitoring systems powered by Phocos PL series charge controllers send video data to three control centers that supervise and evaluate the traffic. Susanne Kircher of Phocos visited the traffic control center of Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co. Ltd. in HuangDao and spoke with the department manager and staff about their experiences with the system.

Off-grid solutions: Along the ShuGang highway from HuangDao to JiaoNan, 122 remote monitoring systems powered by Phocos PL series charge controllers send video data to three control centers that supervise and evaluate the traffic. Susanne Kircher of Phocos visited the traffic control center of Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co. Ltd. in HuangDao and spoke with the department manager and staff about their experiences with the system.

Feed-in tariffs: Across four continents, FITs are falling as photovoltaic systems become ever cheaper.

CEO interview: Trina Solar, a leading vertically integrated PV manufacturer and developer of downstream businesses, strives to be one of the key global drivers of smart energy. Gao Jifan, Trina’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, spoke with pv magazine about the company’s growth strategy.

Trackers: The sun may be sizzling in Western Chinese provinces like Xinjiang, Quinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan, where intense insolation hits chart-topping rates of over 2,000 kWh/m² . But China solar tracker adoption there may lag behind the performance of the EU and US solar markets, where trackers came to dominate utility installations in around five years.

Trackers: The sun may be sizzling in Western Chinese provinces like Xinjiang, Quinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan, where intense insolation hits chart-topping rates of over 2,000 kWh/m² . But China solar tracker adoption there may lag behind the performance of the EU and US solar markets, where trackers came to dominate utility installations in around five years.

China: Although China missed its installation goal for distributed generation of solar power last year by a long shot, a similar goal has been set for this year. Will China be able to achieve its goal in 2015?