that’s more like it.
Glad to see eight19 pushing ahead with IndiGo in Somalia.
http://www.eight19.com/technology/how-indigo-works
A simple solution for a community where payment by mobile phone for bills etc is common. A great idea…more please
that’s more like it.
Glad to see eight19 pushing ahead with IndiGo in Somalia.
http://www.eight19.com/technology/how-indigo-works
A simple solution for a community where payment by mobile phone for bills etc is common. A great idea…more please
Well, that’s a bit of a misleading title. What I would like to call for is a wide scale submission of ideas for how we can truly impact change and the development of Africa’s energy requirements. The poor is a huge potential market, Africa needs energy. Let’s come up with some practical solutions for both large and micro generation of power.
Business Green has reported recently that the five leading UK green media companies have agreed to impose a voluntary blackout on those renewable energy companies considering exploiting the confusion surrounding the current Feed-in Tariffs legal debacle. The biggest online sites are to compose and maintain a blacklist and those companies included on it will be denied editorial space and marketing opportunities.
The decision, which Business Green actively supports, was taken in response to a series of press releases and online advertising which have sought to exploit consumer confusion by peddling misleading claims and false facts. Business Green, ClickGreen, Green Wise, Renewable Energy Installer and YouGen have all agreed to take part as a deterrent against misleading advertising and editorial. Stewart Qualtrough from ClickGreen believes that such action will help to maintain the reputation of the industry over the long term. “”We will not be naming and shaming but simply ignoring” he said “We want to promote a level playing field for both the installers and the consumers that will encourage the further rollout of renewable energy across the UK.”
James Murray of Business Green stated that the aim is to protect consumers and solar business from misleading claims concerning current levels of incentives for solar PV installation. ”Rightly or wrongly the government has created confusion in the solar market by again appealing against a court ruling that deemed its proposed cuts to feed-in tariffs were unlawful,” he explained. “But there are some adverts and claims circulating that ignore the nuance of the case and are attempting to drum up short-term business based on misleading claims.”
“We know that there are lots of excellent solar PV installers giving realistic information” said Cathy Debenham of YouGen, “and we want to make sure that it is their voices that are heard during this period of uncertainty, not those of the cowboys.”
BusinessGreen received similar comments from GreenWise editor Louise Bateman and Renewable Energy Installer editor Lu Rahman, however one comment made on BusinessGreen’s website asked whether this was more the job of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) while another poster said that the so-called ‘rogue companies’ were merely abiding by the judgement reached by the courts. Another comment advocated a loss of MCS registration as a penalty while another said that it will probably only stop a few drops in what is quickly becoming an ocean of confusion.
Should it be UK “downdate”? Does anyone even have any idea what’s going on there right now? It seems the House of Commons has released a paper trying to shed light on the current situation. You can read it here . Hopefully that’s useful to you and your business to finally clear the fog of what has become a very convoluted legal mess. It’s great that we can challenge government in the free world and speak up when we think something is not how it should be…but perhaps we also need to have in place a system to make decisions when there is such disagreement. The really annoying thing is that this never needed to happen this way; it sometimes feels like there is a deliberate undercutting of solar around the world…but perhaps that’s for another post…
The Spainish government is going to shift soon, will that be a chance for almost dead Spain PV market? We all remember Spain market was booming in 2008, but due to the global economic crisis, and too radical for the business. It has been grown rapidly, die rapidly. Let’s see if the new government will bring the new chance back.
Germany reaches 1 million installs…
How I admire that German knack for planning and that love of stability. Policy makers take heed.
The Governor General in Australia passed legislation regarding the Clean Energy Bill and therefore a price on carbon which is a huge step for the current government there…now it’s law.
This policy really splits opinion. Keen to hear your thoughts…
Serbian government signed a cooperation agreement with Securum Equity Partners to set up a 1GW pv power plant over there. After built, it will become the world’s number one biggest pv power system, the Neper Solar Park Incubator project.
The project will takes at least 4 years, Ivan Matejak, the manager of Securum Equity Partners EU branch, said they will map out the best location for this project in next four weeks.
The whole investment capital is over 2 billion Euro, this is operated without any goverment rebate. The investor will have 20 years operation rights, annual rate of return will be 15% as predicted.
Mr Darsan Gunawan, who is an ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, CEO of PT.Jaya Wira Bersama, one the leading battery manufacturer in local market. PT will become the new client of Tianwei New Energy.
Darsan recommends, Indonesia is a very potenial market that has been ignored for a long time, Indonesia has 240 million population, the biggest country in Southeast Asia, consists of 13,000 islands. Most of them are lacking of the power, and it is cost too much to on grid all those areas, so, PV would be perfectly for Indonesia market. In 2012 or latest in 2013, the government will unveil fresh policy of pv FIT. Also the government plans to have 20% of total power from PV by 2025. Darsan is looking for his Great Expectation.
When most of the Chinese PV suppliers are suffering from the slow and tough market, world’s largest backsheet supplier, Coveme, Italy, is running a new backsheet factory in Zhangjiagang city, Jiangsu province by Nov 16th. Invested 30 Million Euros, this is the first time European PV accessory company set up subsidiary in China.
“Backsheet is a very important part of the PV modules, China is the biggest production area of pv, many large pv facotries are based in China. Coveme China is a milestone, we can sever our VIP clients much better here” Pier Luigi Miciano, CEO of Coveme.
