Global solar installed capacity of 100GW

Despite the uncertainty of his European and Chinese markets, but recently released a new report, the installed capacity of solar PV installed in 2012 28.4GW of the global total installed capacity of 89.5GW. International Energy Agency (IEA) report "the global PV Probable" (Snapshot of Global PV), observed in 23 countries. Another 7GW of installed capacity is expected in the project reserves will increase the total installed capacity of 28.9GW from 2011 up to 96.5GW.

The International Energy Agency said that given the global installed capacity is difficult to precisely quantify the 100GW milestone in the first quarter of this year has passed. IEA's report and other recent analyzes of the global solar grid tie inverter market. Market research firm IHS recently reported (Click PV-Tech previously reported), 2012 global PV installed capacity of 31.4GW attributed to representing a 14% increase over the previous year. NPD Solarbuzz recently said that in 2012 the global installed capacity of 29GW.

The IEA report pointed out that, despite the 2012 Asia-Pacific and the Americas rapid growth, but Europe still accounts for 59% of the global market. Middle East and Africa remains the region as the development of the PV market. However, regions or countries continue to dominate the three first developed grid-connected photovoltaic installation history, China is growing so fast that its become the second largest market in 2012, ahead of Italy or the United States. Installed capacity, which has been ranked third.

The NPD Solarbuzz report, in 2013 China's installed capacity is expected to more than 7GW up and seasonal and policy subsidies cut-off, however, showed weak demand in the first quarter have a negative knock-on effects, global PV demand this quarter. The market research firm also predicts that China accounted for more than 20% of the global PV charge controller market demand this year. PV manufacturer Yingli director of business development Ramin Dilmaghanian, said in an interview with PV-Tech, China is committed to long-term growth: "Taking into account the growing national energy demand, China is committed to the development of renewable energy power base."

"The government has the implementation of the attractive subsidy policy, such as the Golden Sun (Golden Sun) plan, and the country benefit from the creation of a world-class photovoltaic manufacturing company, which demonstrated a clear commitment to renewable energy, you should see China continue to climb in the ranking of renewable energy in Europe, the PV for the second consecutive year to become the first installation (power) power resources, ahead of wind energy and natural gas, ahead of all other energy from coal to nuclear energy. Several national annual PV accounted for the proportion of electricity demand has exceeded the 1% mark, Italy came in first place, at least up to 5.75%, and the entire European Photovoltaic accounted for about 2.5% of Europe's electricity demand.

Australia has more than 1% mark, but larger electricity consuming countries, such as Japan, China or the United States will need more PV production to reach this threshold. Ultimately, the report pointed out that PV has very quickly become the main source of power for a few countries around the world. Its growth rate is due to its unique ability to cover most of the market segments, used in rural electrification very small stand-alone systems to utility-scale power stations (now more than 100 MW). From the built environment to the large-scale ground-mounted projects, photovoltaic find their way, according to different standards, making it suitable for most environments.

Designed to promote emerging economies for sustainable energy European institutions EU Energy Initiative - Partnership Dialogue Facility project manager Michael Franz (Michael Franz) said: "In an interview with PV-Tech especially in the the 'global Sunbelt' countries PV is the promotion of micro-and macro-economic vitality. prices fell and new business models power into the hands of millions of new users, especially in sparsely populated remote areas of developing countries. PV market remained relatively flat curve in farm electrification , but it is growing rapidly. "