There was good news from the UK rooftop solar market as trade body the Solar Trade Association (STA) revealed 125,000 households, small businesses and farms installed 700 MW of small scale solar last year. That was enough to trigger a reduction in the FIT from April onwards, the first time installation levels have triggered such a regression - rather than the regular nine-monthly reduction - since 2012. And the increasingly unseemly squabbling between the main political parties ahead of May's general election will do little to affect the demand for small-scale solar, according to analyst IHS, which predicts a steady rooftop installation rate of around 40 MW a month for 'the next year or two.' With the government's department for energy and climate change revealing yesterday (Thursday) 5 GW was installed in total in 2014, doubling the nation's solar capacity, it's been a good week for Britain. Fancy a takeaway? There was plenty to ponder for pv mag editor-in-chief Jonathan Gifford at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, not least the emergence of Jordan, Egypt and Dubai as significant emerging solar markets, despite the headwinds of grid capacity limitations, political instability and the availability of cheap natural ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...