Articles by
Andy Colthorpe
Germany’s new draft renewable energy laws are ‘a slap in the face for prosumers’
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Andy Colthorpe
Germany’s draft renewable energy laws, which the government is seeking to introduce next year, have been heavily criticised by energy storage systems association BVES.
Germany’s new draft renewable energy laws are ‘a slap in the face for prosumers’
By
Andy Colthorpe
Valeska Gottke, head of communications and markets for the energy storage systems association BVES, told Energy-Storage.news in an interview that the draft law as it stands, is “bad news for the successful continuation of the Energiewende as it does not bring renewable 'power to the people'".
Japan sets feed-in tariffs for the 2020 Japanese Financial Year
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Andy Colthorpe
It has long been planned that this next financial year will be the last in which FiTs are offered, meaning that Japan is seeking new ways to support the deployment of solar PV, with the government targeting more than 130GW by 2030.
Up to 100 Japanese solar PV firms could go bust this year, report finds
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Andy Colthorpe
While the market overall has rapidly expanded from the launch of the feed-in tariff (FiT) in July 2012, Teikoku Databank acknowledged that there has been a slowdown in deployment in the past couple of years as the government successively made cuts of 10% or more on an annual basis to the premium prices paid for solar energy fed into the grid.
PVTech: Costs keep falling but Japan’s solar industry is rocked by uncertainty
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Andy Colthorpe
The survey’s respondents confirmed that solar power system costs have fallen rapidly with the country’s feed-in tariff (FiT) a major contributing factor, creating a competitive environment where not only price but also qualitative competition was encouraged.
