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SMA: We can’t be credible if we’re not sustainable
Credibility comes not just from offering products that generate clean electricity, but also from the way in which those products are manufactured, says SMA Solar Technology CEO Jürgen Reinert. Here, transparency and sustainability are key. That’s why one of the world’s largest PV inverter producers has partnered with pv magazine’s UP sustainability initiative. In the following Q&A, Reinert lays out what SMA is doing to step UP its green game.
Sep 16, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Inverters, Opinions, Germany, Europe, SMA
Brazil’s faltering manufacturing ambition
A binational integrated solar industry project, announced just over a year ago, aims to build a vertically integrated solar manufacturing industry along the border between Brazil and Paraguay. But the project is now on hold pending an update and reassessment by its new managers.
Aug 26, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Canadian Solar, JA Solar, South america, JinkoSolar, Brazil, Paraguay, Green Silicon, Maycon Vendrame, José Alberto Alderete, Marcos Kurata, Adalberto Maluf, Absolar, Abinee, BYD
Solar's service warranty threat
The service warranty threat of solar must be dealt with early in the growth stage of PV projects, as it is not possible to buy warranty insurance policy later on throughout the operational phase.
Jul 30, 2020 // Opinions, RONALD SASTRAWAN, MUNICH RE
The future of solar PPAs in Turkey
Both the existing standing, as well as the future of, solar PPAs in the Turkish market as a vital device for raising PV capacity has actually ended up being a commonly gone over subject. This is specifically because of the fact that after mid-2021, the future of YEKDEM (Turkey's neighborhood FIT routine) doubts. The motivations could be less than expected, or perhaps inaccessible for some innovations. This has actually elevated the question of alternative financing devices relative to brand-new investments.
Sep 23, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Opinions, PPA, Asia, Turkey
Ukraine federal government provides retroactive FIT cuts and new auction policies to parliament
The Ukrainian government's meeting room have been stuffier than common recently, as policymakers and renewable resource industry reps attempted to thrash out a compromise to reduce the economic burden left on the management by a feed-in tariff incentive routine which drove almost 2 GW of generation capability. The resulting cuts to settlements, detailed listed below by Ukraine-based lawyer Svitlana Teush, have at the very least had input from both sides.
Jun 17, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, Ukraine, Svitlana Teush, Europe, FIT cuts