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How to find an unused ground or rooftop mounted area for photovoltaic installations on Milk the Sun

How to find an unused ground or rooftop mounted area for photovoltaic installations on Milk the Sun

Milk the Sun not only is a marketplace for PV systems and PV rights – various surfaces for photovoltaics, be it open spaces or roof spaces, regularly find new lessees on our site.

Join Milk the Sun at Intersolar 2016

Join Milk the Sun at Intersolar 2016

Milk the Sun invites you to the 25th Intersolar – the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry, which is taking place in Munich this June. Our team of experts awaits you there with a surprise launch.

Photovoltaic Plants are establishing themselves more and more as a Liquid Asset Class

Photovoltaic Plants are establishing themselves more and more as a Liquid Asset Class

The photovoltaic market is currently facing a paradigm change. While the former tumultuous expansion of solar projects has come to a halt, the secondary market for photovoltaic systems is largely flourishing. The market for trading existing PV-plants is becoming more and more liquid due to an increased market understanding of PV-plant operators and investors. This trend will proceed in 2016.

Milk the Sun’s new search assistant: Your individual search request in a few steps

Milk the Sun’s new search assistant: Your individual search request in a few steps

The new search assistant from Milk the Sun finds for you interesting PV projects that meet your investment criteria. As soon as a suitable PV system or project is added by a seller, you receive an email with the project information. All you have to do is create one (or more) search profiles, which will be used by your personal search assistant to browse through Milk the Sun’s online marketplace. In this tutorial, we show you how you can create your search profiles in a few simple steps.

Nigeria, a future major solar energy producer?

Nigeria, a future major solar energy producer?

By far the most populous country of Africa (with 177 million inhabitants in 2014), and consequently the first GDP of the continent, Nigeria is a member of the OPEP and has a large amount of oil resources, which represents the major part of its economy. The rest of the GDP is mainly divided between the agriculture sector and artisanal production. The electrification rate of the country is rather low: in 2012, only 55.6% of the population had access to electricity. The lack of infrastructure affects mainly the rural and poor populations. To overcome the inexistence and the low reliability of the electricity distribution in several areas of the country, the rural populations invest in diesel generators, which are expensive and polluting.

In Algeria, a new Program for the Development of Renewable Energy

In Algeria, a new Program for the Development of Renewable Energy

Algeria was the very first country in Africa to apply a Feed-in Tariff scheme for renewable energy. In August 2004, a national program for the promotion of renewable energy was launched: it obliges Sonelgaz, the national public energy operator, to buy energy from renewable sources through a commercial contract. However, this policy failed: it did not lead to any renewable power plant construction.