High aspirations despite missed opportunity
Japan: Ambitions to dramatically scale up the agricultural solar sharing model, plus the entry of new players are signs of innovation bubbling through the Japanese PV sector. Fliss Jones of DNV GL Renewables Advisory (formerly GL Garrad Hassan) argues that although Japans New Basic Energy Plan might have lacked imagination, its solar industry certainly does not.
Global FIT overview
Feed-in tariffs: A number of changes took place in Australia, Malta finally released its feed-in tariffs nine months late, and the UK enacted a slight degression.
First Solars evolving business model
Intersolar Europe: Thin film producers made something of a comeback at the Intersolar Europe trade show last month, but not as we know them. First Solar was exhibiting in Munich for the first time in three years and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Joe Kishkill attended the event and spoke to pv magazine to unveil his companys new strategy for Europe.
Dark clouds lifting
Equipment suppliers: Several parameters point to a slight improvement in demand for PV equipment, reports Goetz Fischbeck, CEO of Smart Solar Consulting.
A tale of disruption
Disruptive technologies, disrupted industries, disruptive entrepreneurs: the principle of disruption has become a common thread running through many aspects of our professional lives and society. And for us in solar PV, the disruptive power of our technology comes as no surprise just ask the executives of electric utilities in regions with high PV penetration […]
