GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable about Solar Power in Europe

The new Spanish Feed In Tariff (FIT) - if passed by the government will have significant impacts on the global PV Industry. As the Spanish market will be significantly smaller than in previous years all the modules that are produced and were designated for the Spanish market will need to find...

The recent changes in the German Feed In Tariffs (expected) and the steep proposed cuts by the Spanish Government (rather unexpected) will create volatile market conditions around the globe. At the same time as significant additional production capacities are added along all steps of the PV supply chain...

The requirement to satisfactorily prove additionality as part of any CDM application limits the extent to which projects that would have happened anyway slip through to benefit from the CDM process. However, it is almost certain that the inherent difficulty in proving (or disproving) additionality has...

Exxon Mobile stops funding groups of climate change sceptics as the groups' "position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner."

In order to get benefit of economy of scale and become competitive on the market place, investments in technological development are needed. This is true in particular for emerging energy technologies. But due to the fact that moving from one particular energy technology to another often lasts for at...

Solar power is also solar thermal power technology, which relates on concentrated solar radiation and delivers today already cheaper electricity than photovoltaics. Solar thermal power technology has more in common with Big Oil than photovoltaics. Solar thermal power business is nowadays booming and...

The efficiency of photosynthesis is only about 1%. Therefore, plants or animals should not be used for producing biofuels, unless they are anyway needed for other purposes like food or fodder supply and industry (e.g., construction wood). On the contrary, biofuels from organic waste products of...

Due to the global climate change the energy supply mix will change: energy efficiency and renewable energy are becoming the energy markets of the future. Those countries which first develop their technology in these areas will have the say on the global market and will experience substantial growth...

Prepare for a carbon constrained economy. Postpone the need for new coal power plants by electricity savings and renewable energy. Use the time to improve technologies and the electricity grid to prepare for more dynamic consumption patterns with intelligent consumption and local electricity production....

A 15% national RPS by 2020 has passed the house. This is good news as it establish the principle that all consumers should pay their share of the renewable energy and creates a strong market driver for renewable energy technologies.