Meet your makers – 03-2015
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Mobile payments driving pay-as-you-go PV
East Africa: In January, at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, M-Kopa Solar picked up the Zayed Future Energy Prize in the startup category. M-Kopa Solars Managing Director Jesse Moore shared the award stage with Vice-President Al Gore during which he quipped that the company is likely to return in the large corporation category in a matter of years. Its big talk for a small company, but it is driven by a powerful idea.
Mar 05, 2015
Role model for energy generation
Bangladesh: With distributed generation disrupting traditional energy supply models as the world seeks to keep climate change below the critical two degrees Celsius benchmark, analysts are predicting 2015 could be a tipping point for the switch from fossil fuels to renewables. The role model for the energy mix of tomorrow could be found in a surprising quarter.
Mar 05, 2015
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Delivering a makers market
While we were putting together this issue of pv magazine , UK newspaper the Guardian broke its story of the fossil fuel industry carrying out a “takeover” of key European renewable energy bodies, including the European Photovoltaic Association (EPIA). The result of this insidious infiltration, claims the Guardian, is that renewable groups have reduced the […]
Mar 05, 2015
Good, better, best?
South Africa: The implementation of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme had a great impact on the solar landscape of South Africa. Since the end of 2011, 64 renewable energy projects have been approved by the South African government.
Mar 05, 2015
Leasing to own: a winning formula for the US market
Solar leasing: While solar leasing as pioneered by SolarCity has catapulted US residential PV to new heights, leasing and other financial models have done little to promote commercial and industrial systems in the country. LFC Capitals Solar Ownership Program combines leasing and ownership in what could be a winning formula to help drive this market segment further.
Mar 05, 2015
Backsheet to the future
Backsheet trends: Jolywoods recent acquisition of Italys Filmcutter can potentially boost both the fluoropolymer and PET-based backsheet industries globally, but beyond M&A growth, what other trends are driving the development and attractiveness of the backsheets sector?
Mar 05, 2015
Picking up the fab
Inverter manufacturing: Insolvencies, job cuts and tumbling revenues have marred Europes solar inverter landscape, prompting the question: Are the days of inverter manufacturing in high-cost locations over? pv magazine discovers theres no simple answer to that rather straightforward question.
Mar 05, 2015
Solars battle to plug in
UK electricity market reform: Billed as an effective means of decarbonizing the UKs economy, the EMR has faced accusations of favoritism and creating an uneven playing field for renewables. Solar PV in particular has suffered, but as the technology evolves and the market grows independently, change may soon come from the bottom up.
Mar 05, 2015
Business in fast forward
APRD: Solar energy is just the starting point for the clean tech investments of a Hong Kong billionaire. Götz Fischbeck, CEO of Smart Solar Consulting, analyzes the solar success story of Cheng Kin Ming, the Chairman and Founder of APRD Asia Pacific Resources Development Investment Ltd.
Mar 05, 2015
Growth amongst policy gaps
Manufacturing in China: In China, with multiple renewables policies released by the National Energy Administration and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the expansion of the solar PV market benefited manufacturers of many sizes, as this report on the mid-sized company Eging PV shows. Eging preferred a rather conservative financial strategy.
Mar 05, 2015
