Ukraine is likely to exceed the 1 GW barrier this year, with 56 new major PV installations planned. If all of these plans are brought to action, it will add 488 MW to the Eastern-European country’s PV capacity.
At the beginning of the week, SolarPower Europe released their most recent report on European solar business concepts. pv Europe, an online magazine focussing on solar energy, has interviewed Sonia Dunlop, the Policy Adviser in charge of this report, who revealed the key aspects.
India seems to have overcome the rough patches its solar sector went through over the past years. With a variety of new projects and developments in sight, the future of the solar market in India is in fact one of the rosiest.
In order to encourage solar installation owners to increase their self-consumption, a variety of manufacturers have developed and are now offering special heating elements that consist of a solar battery and a heat collector, which allow users to heat up and boil water using solar power.
Heaven and hell have rarely been as close together as when it comes to the topic of PV in Poland. Now, it seems, the energy policy has finally reached its goal: still this year, on 30th December 2016, the first biddings are set to start in Poland, which will be continued with a second round in 2017.
Renewable energies reach historic number by making 15 % of the U.S. energy market. Albeit only 1.4 % of these renewables are placed in the solar sector, it still means a 40 % increase from 2015.
