Green Energy
- China’s Pv Industry Slated For High Growth Over The Next Five Years
By Liu Yuanyuan Director of Operations China is expected to continue to be the world’s fastest growing solar PV market during the five years spanning 2016 to 2020, with an addition of 15 GW to 20 GW in new PV power generation capacity...
- Solar Energy Dominates First Quarter With 74 Percent Of New Electric Capacity
Solar energy was clearly the top choice when it came to new, electric generating capacity installed during this year’s first quarter.Power generated from the sun accounted for 74 percent of that new capacity, according to aquarterly report produced...
- One Million Up For Germany!
Germany's Millionth Solar Power System Installed 21 years after an ambitious program was launched in Germany to promote the uptake of solar, the nation's 1 millionth solar panel array has been installed. According to the German Solar Industry...
- Solar Pv Industry Revenues Fall 19% In 2012
Article published on www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news on March, 13th 2013. Clean Edge Inc. (Portland, Oregon, US) has released a report which finds that while lower prices drove a record 30.9 GW of global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations...
- France Surpasses 4 Gw Of Installed Pv In 2012
Article published on www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine on March, 1st 2013 France's Ministry of Energy, Ecology and Sustainable Development has released its annual report on wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), which finds that the nation...
Green Energy
Global solar capacity breaks through 100GW barrier
Article published on www.businessgreen.com on February, 11th 2013
By BusinessGreen staff
New industry figures show 30GW of new capacity installed in 2012, despite slowdown in European market.
Global solar capacity has surpassed 100GW, reducing energy sector CO2 emissions by 53 million tonnes a year, according to new industry figures.
The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) yesterday revealed that cumulative solar PV capacity reached 101GW in 2012, after 30GW of new solar technologies were installed.
Significantly, the figures revealed a shift in the global solar market as emerging economies picked up some of the slack caused by a slowdown in European countries.
New European installations dropped from nearly 23GW in 2011 to nearly 17GW in 2012, while 13GW of new capacity was installed outside Europe, up from 8GW in 2011.
However, Europe remained the biggest market, with Germany installing 7.6GW of capacity during 2012. China came in second place in the global league table with 3.5GW of new capacity added, while Italy installed 3.3GW, the US added 3.2GW, and Japan installed 2.5GW.
The UK also completed a record year, installing 1.1GW of capacity, the first time it has deployed more than 1GW in a year.
EPIA said the preliminary figures might be revised up to 32GW of new capacity when it releases its Global Outlook Report in May.
"No one would have predicted even 10 years ago that we would see more than 100GW of solar photovoltaic capacity in the world by 2012," said EPIA president Winfried Hoffmann.
"The photovoltaic industry clearly faces challenges but the results of 2012 show there is a strong global market for our technology. Even in tough economic times and despite growing regulatory uncertainty, we have nearly managed to repeat the record year of 2011."
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- China’s Pv Industry Slated For High Growth Over The Next Five Years
By Liu Yuanyuan Director of Operations China is expected to continue to be the world’s fastest growing solar PV market during the five years spanning 2016 to 2020, with an addition of 15 GW to 20 GW in new PV power generation capacity...
- Solar Energy Dominates First Quarter With 74 Percent Of New Electric Capacity
Solar energy was clearly the top choice when it came to new, electric generating capacity installed during this year’s first quarter.Power generated from the sun accounted for 74 percent of that new capacity, according to aquarterly report produced...
- One Million Up For Germany!
Germany's Millionth Solar Power System Installed 21 years after an ambitious program was launched in Germany to promote the uptake of solar, the nation's 1 millionth solar panel array has been installed. According to the German Solar Industry...
- Solar Pv Industry Revenues Fall 19% In 2012
Article published on www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news on March, 13th 2013. Clean Edge Inc. (Portland, Oregon, US) has released a report which finds that while lower prices drove a record 30.9 GW of global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations...
- France Surpasses 4 Gw Of Installed Pv In 2012
Article published on www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine on March, 1st 2013 France's Ministry of Energy, Ecology and Sustainable Development has released its annual report on wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), which finds that the nation...