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Spain to focus on renewables
Spain is a fast developing renewable energy country and it is expected to move towards by supporting even more expensive energy commodities. Three Spanish companies, Iberdrola, Gas Natural and Endesa registered heavy incomes benefiting from the renewable boost. The chairman of Iberdrola, Sanchez Galan said the company made wrong steps with the development of solar PV power, and will make efforts to avoid such “moving” relative to solar thermal power.
read more... 16/11/2011
New solar PV tariffs in Germany
German Federal Network Agency has recently revealed new feed-in tariffs for solar PV power for 2012. The new once will be 15% lower than those in 2011 and were settled by the German Network Agency after analyzing the solar PV increase for the fiscal year through the third quarter of 2011.
read more... 15/11/2011
UK government to slash feed in tariffs for solar PV installations
The UK government has recently confirmed that it is going to slash feed in tariff support for new domestic photovoltaic installations next year as part of an effort to adjust their incentive mechanisms in order to keep the budget under control and reflect declining PV module prices.
read more... 04/11/2011
Italian PV market to reach 12.5 GW by the end of 2011
Italian solar power market became one of the largest following the German one, immediately after introducing an incentive system in 2007. In May, the Italian government reduced the feed-in tariffs as to sustain customers. According to the chairman of industry body GIFI, Italy’s total PV installed capacity could rise to 12.0- 12.5 GW by the end of 2011, while the growth will slow next year.
read more... 24/10/2011
Greece to invest 1 billion euros in solar power
According to the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos, the country will attempt to accelerate the approval of three PV large-scale photovoltaic projects worth 1 billion euros.
read more... 18/10/2011