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Future
PV grant levels in danger as UK announces latest winners
On Nov. 27, the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced
second-round grants for 19 projects representing 435 kW as part of its
£20 million ($31.2 million) Major Demonstration Programme (MDP).
While £2.2 million ($3.4 million) was promised, 44 applications
valued at just above £9 million ($14 million) were received, slightly
less than the DTI's available budget through June 2005.
One
million solar energy systems
What can the solar industry hope to gain from another four years of a
Social Democratic (SPD)-Green party coalition? The first answer came
from SPD board member Hermann Scheer, who announced that his party had
plans to develop a 1 Million Systems Program.
Total
Energie plans French module factory for on-grid market in Europe
Total Energie SA, the leading French distributor of PV equipment, is
planning to set up module production on its home turf for the first
time.
Italy's
PV program under new management
As a new director, unschooled in renewables, takes control of the
Italian PV program at the Ministry of Environment from the man who
created it, the future of government-subsidized PV is certain only for
2003.
A
new 200 kW PV system will be the largest in the UK
When finished in March 2003, a
200 kW BIPV system in Ipswich, Suffolk, will receive the title of
largest PV installation in the United Kingdom.
Holland
in the waiting-queue
Holland has put its once impressive PV incentive program on the
backburner. The domestic PV industry fears the new government may even
eliminate remaining PV subsidy mechanisms.
BIPV
system for Lehrter Bahnhof railway station in Berlin
Just four month after construction started on the 321-meter-long hall
of Berlin's new railway station »Lehrter Bahnhof,« traffic began to
roll under the station's enormous glass roof – the largest of its
kind in Europe.
Of
dreams and nightmares
As of July, the Italian PV roofs program had only been responsible for
the installation of 200 kW. With the second tender now about to go
out, the Environment Ministry is talking about 22 MW being in place by
the end of 2003. But bureaucratic hassles with the initial tenders
have one integrator saying, »Dream on.«
Halftime
in German 100,000 Roofs Program
By the end of July, Germany's 100,000 Roofs Program,
which began in early 1999, had approved low-interest loans for a total
power of 147.6 MW – that is, almost half of the 300 MW program limit.
New module factory
in Sweden
Peter Johnson, the founder of two Swedish module
manufacturers has started a new PV company.
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