Global solar PV demand is forecast to grow by up to 25% in 2015, according to IHS. Due to the ongoing cost reductions for solar PV, IHS forecasts that installation demand will grow at a double-digit rate of 16-25% and installations in the ...
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GD Development, a PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor established by Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy, has announced the completion of a rooftop PV system at Kaohsiung International Airport and another at ...
A China government-sponsored certification organization has found that about 30% of the country's PV power-generation systems show various problems three years or more after installation, especially in module quality, according to PV ...
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General Energy Solutions (GES), a Taiwan-based PV module maker and PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor, has sold PV power-generating facilities it built at Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana State of the US, ...
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Taiwan-based power supply and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics has obtained orders for 750-800 20KW distributed inverters for use in a 15MWp PV power-generating station in Tochigi Prefecture, central Japan, with total ...
Based on actual total installation capacity of 3.79GWp for PV systems set up around China during the first three quarters of 2014, the total installation capacity for the whole year is estimated at 7-10GWp, far short of the target of 14GWp ...
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The China government, viewing that total PV system installations in the country in 2014 are expected to be significantly short of target, is likely to extend the applicability of 2014 feed-in tariff rates to February 2015 to boost ...
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As mainstream PV power generation is expected to shift from ground-mounted stations to rooftop systems in Europe, the US, Japan and China in 2015, and solar cells used in rooftop PV systems require high energy conversion rates, global ...
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Three to four Taiwan-based private financial holding companies have been evaluating existing PV power-generating stations or ones under construction in Taiwan as investment targets, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Leasing service ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched its large hybrid silicon carbide (SiC) transfer-mold dual in-line package intelligent power module (DIPIPM), which incorporates a SiC Schottky barrier diode (SBD) and seventh-generation IGBT ...
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Mainly because the 2015 total installation capacity of new PV systems in Japan is likely to drop a great deal from 7GWp in 2014, and installations in China, the US and Europe are expected to remain unchanged at best, global installation ...
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Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Big Sun Energy Technology has announced that it has signed with TBEA Xinjiang Sunoasis, the largest China-based PV system EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor, for supply of 25 sets of ...
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Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
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China-based PV module makers and PV system EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractors hope that the China government can extend feed-in tariff subsidies to the first quarter of 2015 because there is insufficient time left to ...
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Ministry of Finance, Financial Supervisory Commission and National Development Council on September 29 jointly held the 2014 International Green Energy and Finance Forum in Taipei. The event ...
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