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Friday, July 30, 2010

UK: World’s Fastest-Growing #Solar Market?

Solar energy is bursting out all over--even in dreary-weather England, where the fastest growth is now being experienced. Look for the "fastest growing" crown to be passed around country-to-country in sync with changing incentive patterns over the rest of the decade. RColinJohnson @NextGenLog


iSuppli’s forecast of annual PV installations in the United Kingdom


Here is what iSuppli says about its own forecast: The sun is rising on the United Kingdom’s solar market in 2010, as attractive government incentives make it the world’s fastest-growing country for Photovoltaic (PV) installations this year, according to iSuppli Corp...Installations of PV systems in the United Kingdom will amount to 96 Megawatts (MW) in 2010, up an astounding 1,500 percent from 6 MW in 2009. While the country’s growth will start from a nearly negligible level in 2009, the expansion will dramatically outpace the growth of the next fastest-growing nation—Spain—which will rise by approximately 730 percent in 2010...
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