The new FiT will be reduced by up to 15% according to the installation situation from March to May. And it will go into effect for new roof-top systems from July 1st and for new ground-based systems from September 1st.
At the end of 2011, it is said there will be another reduction for FiT, raising the deduction up to 24%.
UK's Minister of State, Greg Barker has revealed the new FiT scheme
after reviewing:
For large PV installations:
The comparison can be seen in the table below.
|
Energy Source |
Scale |
Feed-in tariff (pence/kWh) |
Duration (years) |
|
Solar PV |
>10 - 100kW |
31.4 |
25 |
|
Solar PV |
>100kW - 5MW |
29.3 |
25 |
|
Solar PV |
Standalone |
29.3 |
25 |
|
Energy Source |
Scale |
Feed-in tariff (pence/kWh) |
Duration (years) |
|
Solar PV |
>50kW - ≤150kW |
19 |
25 |
|
Solar PV |
>150kW - ≤250kW |
15 |
25 |
|
Solar PV |
>250kW - ≤5MW |
8.5 |
25 |
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) fast-track announcement does not affect
residential installations.
The new scheme would affect on new entrant to the FiT on August 1st, 2011, but
not retrospectively.
Texas is the biggest wind energy producer in the U.S. as an result of legislative support of the state. Now the state
is going to move their attentions towards solar.
According a report from Austin Statesman, 2 separate bills will be introduced
to the state. One of them will promote the purchase of as much as 1.5GW non-wind energy source by 2021. And the other will be mandate that 0.5GW will be purchased.
The state senator Kirt Watson expressed that it was time to do something in the area of solar.
The China Photovoltaic Industry Alliance (CPIA) and Semiconductors Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) released a report said the Si capacity in China will rise from 21GW to 30GW in 2011.
The latest report from IHS iSupply illustrated that although facing with difficulties, the main market for 2011 will still be in Europe, whose share will
amount 70% of the world.
Among 15 main PV markets, 9 of them are from Europe. The new PV installation will be 15.7GW in the Europe and 22.2GW in the
world for 2011. Germany will have 9.4GW and Italy will have 3.9GW. Other 7 important markets are France, Belgium, UK, Czech Republic, Spain, Greece and Bulgaria.
Actually the share of Europe will be lower than that of last year, 78.1%, but still no doubt the king. The report also focused on the
main markets.
For Italy, the new installation was predicted to be 5GW. But recently the government implied they would less the support to PV and new
policies would come out at the end of April.
In Germany, it is also forecast that the FiT will be reduced in the middle of this year. The new installation for 2015 will be decreased
to 5GW, which was even smaller than that of 2010.
Spain will downgrade the FiT by 30%.
France has let the FiT stop until the new FiT announced at the end of Q1.
Czech will cease the subsidies for ground-based systems by March. The new installation will be decreased from 1.3GW to 350MW for this
year.
US will take the place of Germany by 2015.
