News that the German government would likely continue storage subsidies was cause for celebration at this year's Forum Solarpraxis in Berlin. Also sparking interest was the government's decision to allow 5% of tendered projects to be based outside of Germany - a key change that will be part of the country's new renewable energy law in 2017. The U.K. government's announcement that it would seek to make the country a leader in nuclear reactor technology while spending billions on cleaning up ageing nuclear sites and eliminating environmental tariffs for big industry was not lost on the event's participants. In Ireland, meanwhile, a new report commissioned by the Irish Solar Energy Association foresees a potential nationwide solar sector reaching 3.7 GW by 2030 with just EUR 670 million of support. Across the pond in Canada, solar developers welcomed news that Saskatchewan ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...