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06.09.2010,
Photovoltaics
Italy adjusts Solar Funding to Market Conditions
Bonn / Rom. It was not until the official entry in the Italian Gazzetta Officiale that the third revised amendment of the Italian law on the funding of solar energy, the Conto Energia, came into effect. In May of this year the Italian government paved the way for the introduction of simpler permit processes nationwide, a step which facilitated the enactment of the amendment. Although initial plans saw funding being curbed across the board by 30 percent, cutbacks are now to be more differentiated than expected. |
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25.08.2010,
Photovoltaic US
US Market: PV InstallerMonitor analyses Business Strategies of Installers
Miami, Florida – EuPD Research today announced the availability of the new “US InstallerMonitor 2010 – Procurement Management of PV Installers in the USA”. The report helps PV module and inverter manufacturers, distributors, investors and other market participants to understand the downstream photovoltaic market. Five key US states are analyzed in terms of installer needs and preferences based on a primary survey of installers in California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey and New York. |
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29.07.2010,
Photovoltaic Market UK
MCS certification could cause artificial restraint of British photovoltaic market
Bonn. The British photovoltaic market has a feature unique to Great Britain: In order to benefit from the feed-in tariff (FIT) for solar generated electricity, the products installed as well as the installer carrying out the installation process both have to be accredited by the “Micro-generation Certification Scheme” (MCS). |
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06.07.2010,
Photovoltaics
The mediation committee has come to a compromise on the issue of solar funding. The German Federal Network Agency has reported the latest figures for newly installed capacity in Q1 2010.
Bonn/ Berlin. Following weeks of discussion between the German Parliament and the Federal States on the funding of photovoltaics, the mediation committee has finally come to an agreement. The compromise is that remuneration will now be decreased in two phases. Furthermore, the Federal Network Agency has just published the figures for newly installed capacity in Q1 2010. |
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27.05.2010,
Solar Thermal
Solar thermal industry analysis: where is the German market headed?
Bonn/Berlin. For the first time, EuPD Research has conducted – on behalf of Intersolar Europe – a comprehensive solar thermal market and industry analysis. The study report will be presented in a press conference on June 9th at the Intersolar Europe trade fair in Munich this year. |
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23.02.2010,
Photovoltaics
New Feed-in Tariffs: German PV promotion decreases significantly
Bonn/Berlin: For several weeks now, Berlin has been struggling over the amendment of the feed-in tariffs for solar electricity as defined in the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). On the one hand, the debate came to the forefront once again after consumer advocates called on politics to relieve electricity customers. On the other hand, the debate was aggravated by the necessary industrial political adjustments of the feed-in tariffs to the latest state of development of the PV industry. A decision by the cabinet now determines the corner points of new promotion regulations. Experts expect that the cuts made public today will be stipulated into German law without any amendments and will come into effect – after consultation in the German Bundestag and the bill in the German Federal Assembly – just in time for the cut-off date. |
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20.01.2010,
Photovoltaics
Breaking News: German Solar Promotion to Sink by a Further 15 Percent
Bonn / Berlin. The German Minister for the Environment, Norbert Röttgen (CDU), is currently explaining that the feed-in tariff for solar electricity will be reduced – against the warnings from the industry – by a further 15 percent. These massive cutbacks will lead to a short-term run on PV systems and falsely push the prices up. In the medium-term the manufacturers will have to overcome serious cuts. This will hit European manufacturers of quality systems hardest. |
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20.01.2010,
Photovoltaics
Top Solar Location: German PV Industry Threatened by New Cutbacks
Bonn. Only a few days ago the promotion of solar electricity in Germany was significantly decreased and the market conditions adjusted, yet the cries for further cutbacks are getting louder. The trigger for the announced revision of the tariffs by the Ministry for the Environment are the varying estimations regarding the market growth of the solar industry in Germany. The extra expenses for subsidizing PV systems as laid out in the Renewable Energies Act (EEG) are frequently used as the exclusive argument. However, PV only cost every citizen 24 cents more per month in 2009. |
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29.09.2009,
Photovoltaic Market
EuPD Research and SEMI PV Group Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Bonn. During the 24th PVSEC in Hamburg, Germany, leading solar energy market researcher and consulting company EuPD Research signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SEMI, the global industry association for equipment and materials for its global PV initiative PV Group. The MoU was signed by Markus A.W. Hoehner, CEO, EuPD Research and Dan Martin, Executive Vice President, SEMI PV Group. By signing this memorandum, both parties unite in their support for the global PV industry. The agreement also lays the foundations for the exchange of market information and membership benefits.
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18.06.2009,
Photovoltaic Market
Off-Grid Photvoltaics as a compelling alternative for the PV industry
Bonn. Against the backdrop of current developments within the photovoltaic markets, including the introduction of a cap in Spain, reduction of the feed-in tariff in Germany, the largest PV market, as well as the increasing module surplus, market participants are searching for alternatives for the future. A great deal of focus is being placed upon the off-grid segment. |
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26.05.2009,
Photovoltaic Market
The German photovoltaic market - solid as a rock
Bonn. Germany will again be the most important photovoltaic market worldwide in 2009, according to the forecast from EuPD Research, the leading market researcher for solar energy. According to estimations made in the new study: “The German PV Market Understand the Demand - Explore the Potential”, two gigawatts of modules will be newly installed in Germany. Although global context factors do not bode well with the optimistic outlook of the international photovoltaic industry – the break down of the Spanish market, the worldwide supply surplus and the financial crisis, are all causes for uncertainty. However solid framework conditions in Germany could make sure that the local photovoltaic market will experience considerable growth nonetheless – thrusting it even more into the global spotlight. |
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12.03.2009,
Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
CSP Survey: Industry report helps reduce site selection risks
Bonn. The global Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) market is growing and scientists and experts are acknowledging that this kind of alternative power generation in equatorial countries has an amazing potential. Theoretically – a fact that can be calculated very easily – a little over one percent of the total area of the Sahara could yield an amount of electricity equal to the combined total of all power plants in the world. |
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04.02.2009,
Photovoltaic Market
New study about procurement management of German PV installers
Bonn. Business relationships between German installers and their suppliers are characterized by distribution channels with multiple steps. More than two-thirds of German installers purchase their photovoltaic components from a wholesaler or system integrator. This was the result of the new study “PV InstallerMonitor© 2008/2009” by the market research institute EuPD Research in Bonn. |
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16.12.2008,
Photovoltaic Market
Spanish Solar Market Explodes: new expansion of solar plants - 2.5 GW by the end of 2008
Bonn. Coming to the end of 2008, Spain is once more revising its prognosis for installed PV capacity following record expansion. At this stage, according to the National Energy Agency CNE (Comisión Nacional de Energía), a total capacity of 2.4 GW will be installed by the end of 2008. The assessments that were made in previous months have proven to be much too conservative. Up to the third quarter market experts, companies and agencies considered a market size of 1.5 GW realistic. But the expectations have had to be increased once more. |
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08.12.2008,
Photovoltaics
The solar industry on the verge of change: controlling knowledge centrally offers competitive advantages
Bonn. Across the globe, the solar industry is on the verge of a foundational change. The adjustments to the laws for solar electricity subsidies caused uncertainty in Germany and Spain where demand for PV systems has been very strong, and now there are new announcements doing the rounds. The PV industry is expecting a clear oversupply of photovoltaic systems and components in 2009.
In a world first, EuPD Research have gone live with an online digital tool, the PV Research Management Sys-tem (PV-RMS©), which allows customers from the solar sector to meet their individual information needs. “Given the current changes on the market, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to ensure they posi-tion themselves properly. The situation calls for companies to evaluate market data and information, analyze it properly and to bring in appropriate measures – and all more quickly than the competition” says Markus A.W. Hoehner as he introduces the system |
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05.11.2008,
Photovoltaic Market
Change we can believe in?
The USA is on its way into a solar present
Washington/Bonn. “If you became President in 2009 and could choose to provide financial support in one of the following energy sources during your term in office, which one would you choose?” Exactly this question was asked by a US market researcher in a nationwide online survey in June this year. The outcomes of this survey are astonishing: approximately 40 percent – a clear majority – of the people asked said that they would support solar energy. A trend which presumably mirrors the fact that the US population are rethinking their approach to energy matters. |
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31.10.2008,
Photovoltaic Market
The booming Spanish market is not yet ready for private rooftop systems
Bonn. The Spanish photovoltaic market still has a high proportion of large open-space systems, as the high feed-in
tariffs of the expired Royal Decree 661/2007 were paid regardless of the location of plants and expensive
connection fees made the profitability of private rooftop systems considerably less. |
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16.10.2008,
Photovoltaic Market
Successfully Clearing the Hurdles on the Italian Photovoltaic Market
Bonn. All roads lead to Rome – but not only there! Italy can see them coming, the hopeful players of the photovoltaic
business. Coming from successful business activities in Germany and Spain, they are very self-confident:
the things that were accomplished in the other two countries will certainly not be too difficult in Italy. |
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16.09.2008,
Photovoltaic Market
Photovoltaics in the USA - Stop or Go?
Bonn. There is good evidence that the US photovoltaic market will be one of the key future markets for photovol-taics. However, up to now, the market has had to struggle with erratic political support for renewable ener-gies, as well as highly complex promotion structures and strong fragmentation due to the 50 separate state markets. |
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28.05.2008,
Photovoltaic Market
What is the Reality Behind the Thin Film Hype?
Bonn. Based on a quantitative survey among thin film producers and market entrants EuPD Research is publishing the first primary study on the global booming PV thin film technology. According to the study, the production output for thin film will reach 3.5 GW in 2010. EuPD Research estimates that less than 50 percent of the 60 companies that intend to start commercial thin film production by 2010 will keep the timeline. According to the statements of the participants, the competitive intensity within the industry will increase. But interestingly, the new players are not considered to be a great threat. |
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29.08.2007,
Photovoltaic Market
PV Growth Markets Will Be Presented in Milan
Milan/ Bonn. In California all sign concerning solar energy are finally set on go. With the adoption of the “California Solar Initiative” the Federal State established an urgently needed framework for the region. As a consequence thereof, the industry in the “golden state” is taking off. Already in 2010 California might exceed the gigawatt limit, predicts PV country market expert Daniela Schreiber (EuPD Research). And Italy and France establish themselves more and more as new growth markets. These are the results of recent market surveys by market researcher EuPD Research concerning the three foreign markets. “Despite the notably improved promotion, bureaucratic hindrances still remain to be the trig for further development of solar energy”, underlines Markus A. W. Hoehner, Managing Partner EuPD Research.
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03.08.2007,
Photovoltaic Market
EuPD Research Business Climate Index 2nd Quarter 2007
Bonn. The business climate index of EuPD Research for the photovoltaic and solar thermal branch shows an inconsistent picture for the 2nd quarter of 2007. While the interviewed companies being active in the solar thermal sector estimate their business situation clearly more negative than in the previous quarter, companies of the photovoltaic sector are currently satisfied. In order to particularly follow up the development of the solar markets by means of profound data, EuPD Research has set up the business climate indices for the photovoltaic and the solar thermal market. Hence, EuPD Research quarterly inquires 100 companies from the photovoltaic- and solar thermal sector about their estimations of the current business situation and the business expectation for the next six months. Besides, developments of prices, employment, investment and turnover are surveyed.
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21.06.2007,
Photovoltaic Market
Growth of international photovoltaic markets accelerating – French photovoltaic market takes shape
Freiburg / Bonn. Since many countries have improved framework conditions, international photovoltaic markets develop very dynamically. The German Solar Industry Association (Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft/BSW) expects the market growth abroad to be bigger than in Germany that nevertheless will remain the biggest market. Especially in the focus of the branch is the French photovoltaic market. One reason can be seen in the decree that was implemented by the French industry ministry in July 2006 guaranteeing a higher feed-in tariff for solar power.
Regarding the development of the market during this year, respondents are confident: Photovoltaics is ascribed a significantly higher growth potential compared to solar thermal. These are first results of the latest EuPD Research study “The French Solar Market 2007 – Structures, Potentials, Difficulties“, which has been presented at the trade fair Intersolar in Freiburg. The complete study that also addresses the development of the solar thermal market is available from August 2007. (PDF 139 KB) |
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13.02.2007,
Photovoltaic Market
In Spain, business with solar energy is growing
Bonn. The lastest study "The Spanish Photovoltaic Market 2006/07 – Growth Market with Initial Difficulties" of EuPD Research points out that the Spanish solar market is growing. Especially the business with solar parks is booming further on. According to calculations of EuPD Research, the volume of the newly installed capacity in 2006 will be at least about 50 MW, likely even higher. In particular module manufacturers significantly show a positive market development. All questioned porducers reported on the extention of their production capacities. In addition, a new silicon factory is planned. During in –depth interviews with companies being active in the Spanish installation business, it could be noticed that distribution structures have strongly changed over the past two years. Hence, installers do not directly buy products at the manufacturer but rather from wholesalers specialized on photovoltaics. A main hurdle for an unhindered market growth see questioned market participants still in the very complex and extensive bureaucracy.
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12.02.2007,
Photovoltaic Market
Solar market Italy: Growth hindered – market is waiting for the "Conto Energia"
Bonn. As presenten by the lastest study "The Italian Photovoltaic Market 2006/07 – Basics, Potentials, Risks" of market researcher EuPD Research, the Italian market holds enormous potential, which is only not taped in full due to hurdles and difficulties. Problems are seen beside the solar promotion decree “Conto Energia“ in the delay of project realizations due to loacal administration as well as net operators Despite all existing problems, EuPD Research expects a newly installed capacity of about 80 MW in 2007. For 2008, even 150 MW of additional volume can be anticipated. How much in fact can be realized is depending on the question whether net operators are able to connect all PV systems to the grid. Even more important is however the design of the new ´Conto Energia`“, explains project manager of the study Daniela Schreiber.
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02.02.2007,
Photovoltaic Market
End-of-year business of the solar branch clearly positive
Bonn. To the fiscal year change, the business situation in the German photovoltaic market has consolidated. After the significant brake down in demand within the first two quarters of the year 2006, end customer prices in autumn are about four percent lower than the prices in summer. Thus, according to recent inquiries of EuPD Research, a private rooftop system, consisting of branded components including installation cost on average 4,870 € per kilowattpeak (kWp) without VAT. One reason for the again increasing demand can be seen in the so far mild weather conditions that still allows for installation works. Also the upcoming raise of the value added tax as well as the decreasing feed-in tariff have persuade many end customers to buy a PV system already in 2006. In total, the price is still about five to ten percent above the price level of 2003, which is mostly justified with the grown silicon prices.
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18.12.2006,
Health
Companies leave smokers out in the rain – already now
Bonn. Every year, 140,000 people die due to the consequences of smoking. Besides, regular cigarette breaks decreased effectiveness and increased liability to sicknesses, negatively affecting companies. The latest EuPD Research Study "Health Management 2006/07", surveying more than 100 of the biggest German enterprises shows: Already in 20 percent of the cases, smokers need to clock out before smoking and therefore are forced to work longer. About 63 percent of the companies decreed a general smoking ban at the company area and almost 86 percent promote non-smoking by means of respective workshops or with the help of nicotin patches. These operational measures for smoking cessation have increased about 26 percent compared to those in 2005.
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