China PV inverter market or business opportunities

2012 for the photovoltaic industry is not calm year, this year there have been many significant events deeply affected the pattern of the PV market. It is also a brilliant year, the PV industry to achieve an important goal milestone.

According to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) in the February 2013 release of "2012 Market Report," said the 2012 global PV cumulative installed capacity has more than 100GW, which 10 years ago no one had predicted. Entered in 2013, Switzerland's leading photovoltaic inverter manufacturer Sputnik Corporation(Solar Max) CEO christophvon Bergen on the development prospects of the global PV market, as well as the status of the Chinese market share with readers his views.

PV markets are interrelated, global markets were hit by the economic fluctuations and the impact of recession, but the affected time and affect the way but not the same. For example in 2012, the European region for installers and system integrators demand growth, but the local solar cell and module manufacturers has gradually lost market share.

Since some countries may advance phased out or significantly reduce the feed-in tariff subsidy policy, the European PV market prospects for the near future is not yet clear, but Europe in the coming years will be more and more use of renewable energy generation, we see European markets still exists great potential in the future.

Europe, of course, there are uncertainties in the market, but I believe the second half from 2013 to 2014, the European market will eventually rebound. Today's technology is moving towards a more efficient, more competitive direction, as technology continues to continuous innovation, PV will become the future of Europe's major source of electricity and energy markets is an important part.

European Photovoltaic Industry Association recently in May 2012 released "for 2016 global PV market expectations," the report pointed out, it is expected that by 2016, global PV installed capacity will increase by at least one fold to 200GW, and may even grow to 340GW. The report also highlighted that the global PV market structure is changing. 2011, the European market leading position in the global market, the annual new installed capacity accounted for 75% of the global total.

But in 2012 the situation has changed, the emergence of emerging markets intensified competition in the market, the European market growth rate to slow down, while South Africa, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and South American countries, including intelligence, Mexico and Brazil and other emerging markets, all have been introduced to encourage policies and measures to bring their capacity showed a rapid upward trend.