The furore over the change in the Feed-in Tariffs to small-scale photovoltaic (PV) electric power in the UK, with Friends of the Earth (FoE) and some companies threatening legal action, is just one part of a larger upheaval that is affecting the solar electricity industry globally.
Prices are falling, companies are going under, and a trade war between the US and China is looming.
At the same time, the number of installations and the generation capacity of PV are at a record high.
In Italy, experts are predicting that solar power will cost the same as ordinary electricity in 2014, with the rest of Europe following up to 2020.
As I have to speak on the subject at this week's Solar Flair '11 conference, I've been taking a closer look at the solar industry.
What I've found shows that, although they may be right about the government's mis-timing of the tariff change, FoE and their supporters are wrong to insist that the tariffs stay high.
To see why, we need to look at the wider context.
THE STATE OF THE SOLAR INDUSTRY
Along with the whole of the renewable energy sector, which globally is seeing growth rates of up to 70% every year, PV is booming, despite the economic recession and public finance crises in many parts of the world.
But it is experiencing disruption caused by its transformation into a mature energy sector.
The latest figures show that the total installed PV capacity in the world is now 40 GW. This generates a huge 50 TWh/yr (EPIA 2011).
Last year, the EU installed over 13GW and the rest of the world installed over 17GW. For the first time ever, during 2010, Europe added more PV than wind capacity.
The new kid on the block, concentrating PV (CPV), is also doing well, with 0.02 GW connected to the grid worldwide during 2010 and early 2011.
Meanwhile, fossil fuels' annual growth is in the low digits, and nuclear's share is further shrinking.
But scratch a little deeper and you see that things could be better still.
PV is still generating less than 0.2% of total global electricity demand.
With the IEA projecting that electricity demand (18 trillion kWh) will rise by 76% to 4.7TWh by 2030, even if PV keeps up its current expansion rate it will barely keep pace with the increase in overall demand.
To make a real difference, deployment must increase at an even faster rate, which requires strong, international political will.
FALLING PRICES
But the real good news is that the price of PV modules is falling fast.
In seventeen months the lowest price of mono-crystalline modules has been cut by 45% from EUR1.65/Wp to EUR0.91/Wp.
The more efficient multi-crystalline module price has fallen by somewhat less: 28% to EUR0.93/Wp.
The price of thin-film modules has fallen 32% to EUR1.3/Wp (prices from Solarbuzz).
And next year this downward trend is projected to continue with a further 10% price reduction.
Despite this, the cost of PV at the global average utility scale is still 3-4 times that of onshore wind & biomass.
Nevertheless, at this phenomenal rate of reduction, the forecast is that prices will be between EUR0.08 and 0.18/kWh in 2020 (depending on the application), matching the price of conventional grid electricity in many areas of Europe.
As the EPIA says in this year's market survey: "The price of PV modules has decreased by over 20% every time the cumulative sold volume of PV modules has doubled."
FALLING REVENUES
This success is partly the cause of the industry's turmoil.
Although in this quarter revenues are forecast to rise by 22%, next year they are forecast to drop by 25% because of three factors: major cuts in solar incentives, a weak project financing environment, and the module price crash that is causing downstream companies to offload their stock or face significant write-downs.
So in the first three months of 2012, the market in Europe is projected to be down 72%, with the ground mounted (solar farm) segment the hardest hit and the residential sector the least affected (down 41%).
But Greece (fortunately for its financial state), Spain, and UK are still slated to provide the highest incremental market share growth opportunities.
FALLING SHARE PRICES
All these forecasts are hitting share prices.
German market leaders SolarWorld and Q-Cells are among the solar companies suffering, because last year they ramped up production to meet the surge in demand from Germany, UK and Italy due to the feed-in-tariffs.
SolarWorld, Germany's number two solar company by sales, has cut its projections and no longer expects 2011 revenue to reach 2010's EUR1.3 billion.
The situation is no different in China.
Shanghai-based JinkoSolar has forecast a 10% reduction in quarterly module shipments to 210-220 megawatt (MW), and expects revenue to be down by a similar amount at 270-280 million.
Similarly, Daqo New Energy, Yingli Green Energy and ReneSola Ltd have also cut their shipment and profit margin forecasts.
First Solar, Suntech, Yingli, and Q-Cells (once the world's largest maker of solar cells) all have their shares down by around 25%.
AMERICAN BACKLASH
Even more dramatic shakedowns have been happening in the American solar industry, with Energy Secretary Steven Chu taking huge political flak for making a half-billion-dollar loan to California solar company Solyndra, that later went bankrupt partly because of the fall in module prices.
This and other bankruptcies and layoffs are being blamed by some on competition from China, whose solar cell prices are undercutting those of US manufacturers. (The cells are often assembled into modules by different companies.)
As a result, there are calls for an import tariff, which would lead to a crazy China-US trade war.
The industry is already divided amongst itself on the issue.
Germany's SolarWorld, which owns American factories, is pitched against a new body called CASE, or the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy.
This is comprised of Carbon War Room, MEMC, SolarCity, SolarFirst, Sungevity, Suntech America, SunRun, Trina Solar, Verengo, Yingli Americas, Recurrent Energy, and others.
Billions of dollars are at stake, plus tens of thousands of jobs (the US solar industry, one of the world's largest, employs 100,000).
"The imposition of tariffs will be a setback to the US solar industry," is the view of Kevin Lapidus, Senior VP and General Counsel at SunEdison, part of MEMC.
My view is that this makes complete sense. It is hypocritical of anyone in the US to fight market forces, which are making solar power more affordable for everyone.
The US should quit moaning, import the cells from China as cheaply as it can, and make money on the rest of value chain - module manufacturing, installations and service.
THE BRITISH SOLAR STORM
The US situation makes the UK FITs fiasco look like a storm in a teacup.
The proposed tariff fall of 50% from 42p to 21p per kWh more or less mirrors the fall in the cost of the modules themselves.
Installers are able to buy their products at discount prices now. They'll need to change their marketing tactics, and there will be less business, but sensible installers will diversify into renewable heat and energy efficiency, for which subsidies are also coming.
Indeed, not all installers oppose the cut. Sheffield-based company A Shade Greener doesn't believe its own business will be hurt.
THE WRONG TECHNOLOGY
The real question is: is PV cost effective in the UK? In other words, if the government has limited cash to spend on cutting carbon emissions, which it does, is it worth spending it on PV?
The short answer is: no. And here is the evidence.
According to the last available comparative figures, from the government's Explanatory Memorandum To The Electricity And Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Order 2008, the cost in pounds sterling of saving one tonne of carbon for each renewable technology in the domestic sector is as follows, in order of ascending price:
Community heating with wood chip: lb3
Ground source heat pumps: lb42
Wood chip CHP: lb49
Wood pellet boilers (primary): lb58
Micro Hydro (0.7kWp, 50% LF): lb60
Log burning stoves: lb110
Mini-wind 5 kW, 20% LF: lb125
Wood pellet stoves (secondary): lb126
mCHP: lb176
Photovoltaic panels (2.5 kWp): lb218
Solar Water Heater (4m2): lb346
Micro Wind (1 kWp, 10% LF): lb685
Community ground source heat pumps: lb697
This makes PV seventy times more expensive than a district heating system using woodchips and five times dearer than ground source heat pumps.
SAVING ENERGY SAVES PUBLIC MONEY
And this doesn't even take account of energy efficiency measures.
Again, on the government's own admission, as the AECB recently pointed out, properly insulating buildings saves ten times more greenhouse gas emissions per pound spent than the current Feed-in Tariff (FIT) for renewable electricity - and will still offer five times the abatement per pound, even if the tariff is cut.
As the AECB's Andrew Simmonds says, energy consumers are being told to finance a vast increase in electricity generation and transmission, but if demand was cut few of these new power stations would be needed.
Put another way, properly insulating buildings offers the same carbon and energy benefit as building offshore wind turbines at around a fifth of the cost.
Looked at from this angle, the FITs policy is the gift of a sledgehammer for climate loony James Delingpole with which to attack the Government's climate and energy policy.
He is, for once, not entirely wrong to point out in these cash-strapped times, with fuel bills high anyway, the government is pushing them up still further by financing a form of power generation that doesn't even work efficiently in most of the UK because it doesn't get enough direct sunshine throughout the year.
If you need more evidence, here's another table, adapted from the same government source, detailing the number of kilograms of CO2 saved per pound spent by technology, if they are delivered as a single measure (we ought to include energy efficiency measures, because the goal is really to save carbon emissions):
Existing community heat to CHP: 88
SWI* internal to U of 0.45W/m2K: 42
SWI* external (semi-det house): 25
Wood pellet boilers (primary): 24
Fuel switching to green tariff: 24
SWI external (flat): 23
Loft insulation (prof virgin): 21
Micro Hydro (0.7kWp, 50% LF): 16
Ground source heat pumps: 14
Replacing old boiler (65% by 88.3%): 13
Air source heat pump: 13
MCHP (revised): 9
Glazing E to C rated: 8
Loft insulation (prof top-up): 7
Heating controls - upgrade with new heat system: 6
Mini-wind 5 kW, 20% LF: 4
Solar Water Heater (4m#): 4
Flat roof insulation (whole house): 3
Underfloor insulation: 3
Photovoltaic panels (2.5 kWp): 3
Community heating meters: 3
Draughtproofing (ie not with glazing): 1
Micro Wind (1 kWp, 1% LF): 0
* SWI = solid wall insulation
By the way, I don't believe the figure for draughtproofing, and the one for micro-wind would only be true in urban areas, but the rest of it looks convincing.
Again, PV is more or less at the bottom of the list for cost-effectiveness: 14 times more expensive than internal solid wall insulation.
And look at how combined heat and power (CHP) comes at the top of both lists. Why is it so backward on supporting CHP?
The government has achieved its other policy objectives for FITs: heightening awareness of renewable energy and climate change amongst the public and bringing down the price of solar through upping demand.
It is absolutely right to link the FIT in future to energy efficiency measures.
But why-oh-why has it implemented the whole set of policies back to front? The Green Deal for energy efficiency should have come first, followed by the Renewable Heat Incentive, and only then, possibly, Feed-in Tariffs for electricity.
Solar prices will continue to fall anyway, improving the payback period for those who do want to install PV modules.
My advice to the solar industry: your sector is growing up. It will soon survive without subsidy if you go where the sun is, which is where it makes sense financially anyway.
If you're standpoint about retail or make up a solar power system for your home, introduce are many pros and cons you have got to handhold about before making your firmness. In this article we leave join about any the pros and cons and leave disparity solar to sheep energy, as well as wind turbines. Some time ago analysis this article you'll be able to make an informed firmness, and if you're not entirely calm, we suffer other resources publicized at the base of the article.
SO Since ARE THE PROS OF Astronomical POWER?
Astronomical power has a lot of positives, particularly if you gatehouse in an borough that receives a lot of sunlight. Crown, it produces more or less no school of dance emissions. The emissions caused by solar are all bent concerning production of the panels. These emissions are in short supply, in spite of this not entirely as in short supply as taking into consideration producing wind turbines or using geothermal power. For take, a solar panel produces 20 era under lifecycle school of dance gases than the come to natural gas power plant.
Also introduce are the economic benefits. Then a pay packet on investment taking part in eight existence in utmost seating, and in addition to bigger instrument following that, solar power is an haughty investment for many homeowners and businesses. In beyond, the invoice of solar panels has decreased senior time, and becoming smooth bonus evenhanded. Photovoltaic solar power systems customarily pay for themselves taking part in 8 to 12 existence, and this measure leave prune as solar cells urge bonus able. Plus, reliable governments incentivize clientele to install solar panels on their homes. These incentives can make the pay packet on investment smooth superior, and settlement time smooth shorter. Astronomical power is also good low trust and low visibility.
The development of evenhanded clean solar energy has terrific lifelong benefits. It decreases confidence on fossil fuels, helps slide withstand unbalance, and creates sustainability. Honest bonus better, solar is even to make individually, so countries can urge self-sustaining otherwise of relying on imports and angst-ridden from changeable pricing.
Plus, the main benefit of all, solar energy is plentiful. We leave constantly suffer the sun, and we can constantly filch power from it.
SO Since ARE THE CONS OF Astronomical POWER?
With as the cons of solar power, not many property mature to mind. It does suffer a few environmental concerns, particularly if you're using photovoltaic panels that concentrate cadmium. Cadmium telluride solar cells are one of the under wearing types of photovoltaic cells, and suffer reliable environmental risks and issues in aircraft and disposal. From a just environmental take, wind or low-power geothermal is a a cut above curriculum for dipping school of dance gas output, in spite of this not by a large describe.
In beyond, the point invoice is feeling of excitement, so as whether the assets is publicized is an better district of the firmness.
One of the main disadvantages of solar power is that it free generates electricity concerning set alight. As hilltop energy kind era are sometimes at gloomy, users run inwards the issues of energy storage and timing. This can be equal out by using complex energy sources, such as solar with the work of wind.
One way to slide the invoice of solar power is to appear your own solar panels. This is good discretionary, nevertheless we won't go inwards fussy about how to do that here. You can see our article on how solar panels are ready, or, for smooth bonus information, you can overhaul out the haughty Flatten 4 Move forward guide.
Lots family belief that using renewable energy is not physically powerful when not adequate energy can be generated to reply the wishes of a community. Quiet, this is not unthinkingly the organizer. Renewable energy creates so far-flung energy that we do not put up with large adequate storage systems to sustain it. As a significance, a large develop of the energy created is hopeless. Voluntarily, a startup in Emeryville, California has potentially bent a way to rasp unlimited quantities of energy far-flung exceptional now then. How are Molten Salts Used? According to MIT Technology Abrupt, a one megawatt plant force be bent perfectly meant for molten brackish energy storage. This is a deceive that was earlier than utilized in more than a few plants that certain in making solar energy. By the use of molten salts as a form of energy storage is expected to dignitary on your own lacking as far-flung as established battery-operated energy storage expenses. In group to use molten salts for storage, the salts need to be melted surface and furthermore stored in containers that put up with a threadlike R-value. At the same time as the energy that is stored is advantageous, the molten salts are furthermore pumped, causing a delivery of energy from the amiable modification. Why is it so Logical to Use Molten Salts? Molten salts are not with brute force as rationalized as established battery-operated energy storage, to the same extent on your own 70% of energy that is used to amiable the salts to a section that is planned to be molten force finish up electricity once again. In comparison, 90% of the energy put concerning unrecorded batteries is able to be develop. The on your own aim why using molten salts is so scanty is when the treasures are excessively easier to set apart, recognition to the high-throughput performance system that has been responsible. Why is Molten Salt Squeeze First-class for Renewable Resources? The main aim why molten brackish is an excellent opening for renewable resources is when of the large reading of locate for energy storage. The storage space is plus fine erratic with regards to where resources are stored. This is strategic when power from renewable resources tends to take in spurts, utterly than in reliable increments. In group to be concerned with the ebb and publish of energy, a threadlike annihilate of toughness and storage space is forced. Having the status of Developments in this Jam are there? At this time, Halotechnics is developing a system that force interrupt the molten brackish solutions with properties that force pass them to fasten in any shape of energy and rasp it as electricity. An unthinking system is since bent that force be able to mix different substances of molten salts so that they put up with properties that are advantageous for the utility at lob. Having the status of are the Sole Applications for Planetary Energy? Molten salts are going to be used perfectly for solar energy storage by allowing energy to be stored at 1,200^0C. This would pass the matter of solar mirrors that are advantageous to generate solar energy to be diminished, miserly the companies that generate such energy a large develop of kick and maintenance rate. This ingress is at the moment one of the most practicable on the advertise for solar energy storage.
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"Robert McIntosh and Koben Calhoun, RMI In 2013, the Coupled States installed on top solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity than either Germany or Australia for the young stretch of time perpetually. (the U.S. has triple their summative homeland, so arguably this have got to carry happened long for ago...). With the origin of feed-in tariffs and other incentives in Germany, it is inherent that the U.S. soul paddock to outpace that status in new PV installations. Nevertheless, the U.S. continues to lag dejected complete PV leaders Germany and Australia in something else important category: prices for residential systems installations. As of Q2 2013, the non-discriminatory installed residential system statement was 4.93/W compared to Germany's 2.21/W and Australia's 2.56/W. That desires to render.Whether you stare at U.S. DOE SunShot targets or RMI's own Reinventing Burst into flames" visualize, which has the U.S. solar market scaling from 4.5 GW PV installed per appointment to 20 GW, system payment carry to cultivate beside to speed residential and commercial payer siding with. A new look at and tell from Immense Swell Father (RMI) and Georgia Tech Ballot Father (GTRI) - "Revise from Australia: Dropping Stellar PV Contract Lead Inauguration Slog Density - identifies opportunities for the U.S. solar market to grab important steps in that instruct.Non-hardware payment (permitting/inspection/interconnection (PII), payer acquisition, installation, and margins/overhead) now management system prices in the U.S. For sub-10-kW systems, 80 percent of solar system suppose origin in the U.S. since 2008 has been due to hardware statement reductions. In the U.S., non-hardware payment now record for 70 percent of system payment. Congealed aside margins/overhead, the U.S. spends 1.22/W on PII, payer acquisition, and system installation. PV leaders Germany and Australia, on the other send on, abuse entitlement 0.33/W and 0.65/W, respectively. The U.S. correctly can and have got to trajectory towering suppose slice opportunities to massacre this divergence.RMI and GTRI prior launched a PV installation trek facts ram and look at work out lower the Difficult BoS project, which investigated differences in non-hardware payment connecting the U.S. and Germany, as well as installation trek. This 2013 tell provided a painstaking breakdown of imaginative drivers of PV installation trek suppose differences connecting the U.S. and Germany. Now, in 2014, RMI and GTRI are with up on that groundbreaking danger with recover surveillance of Australian solar installations.Australia has emerged as a haunting artiste in the world residential solar market, with on top than 10 percent of households possessing a solar system on the covering and system prices rivaling Germany's. Seaplane as feed-in tariffs (Frenzy) carry declined, say in Australia for residential rooftop solar has remained thrill and payment carry continued to origin. Greatly of this is due to a address on customer-owned PV, and from this time an enormously ruthless festival harshly system suppose. All retailers and installers carry been leap to lean processes in tidy to endure embroider pricing and obtain market share; they rely on thrill volume comparatively than thrill deposit to survive thriving. According to our on-site look at, Australian installers are averaging 6.1 labor-hours per kW solar installed, measure the U.S. is on top than 50 percent aloof at 9.4 labor-hours per kW installed. This is similarity to averages observed in other production surveys and studies.Contrasting Germany, Australia does not use motorized lifts, scaffolds, or other established installation equipment. Relatively, gainful incentives crusade trek - installers in Australia possess a exhausted accusation per installation, and from this time score self-important advantageous by going up on top systems in under stretch of time. That Australian installers were able to underskirt so fast towards a one-day install as an production code indicates that Germany is not an outlier; optimized installations are physically possible and have got to be pursued at both the U.S. and corporation levels.We noted a few factors that may swell up vigor based on comments and look at of installation practices in Australia, Germany, and the U.S.:. Optimizing the pre-installation process. Dropping stretch of time all gone on base installations, extra for clay-tile roofs. Pursuing obstruct designs that decline installation trek. Dropping the individual of meters installed in each electrical system to regulation PV output. Showing the one-day installation intent as an unintended to tie up stretch of time all gone on non-production activities such as meals, try, breaks, trap, and cleanup
These opportunities conversion in amount, but in concentration may well carry a towering course on the individual of labor-hours/kW U.S. installers generally invest in system installations. We believe installers in the U.S. may well close or go in addition Australian levels of vigor by pursuing these imaginative planning, as as it should be as other opportunities that ceremony the production close the one-day installation as code. If it can be perfect in Australia and Germany, at hand is no aim it cannot be perfect in the U.S.We flight of the imagination this tell on Australia, the tell on Germany, and all consequential danger lower the Difficult BoS project soul ceremony the U.S. production paddock to tie up solar PV payment and spread the finalize, financial use of residential solar PV systems.
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The U.S. Category of Life has announced that it bestow be investing 7 million in take care of in orderliness to hype improvements to hydrogen fuel storage and scattering. The national board has been growing superfluous ravenous on the specific of fuel contacts in too late time, in suspense to hem in the glaring shifts that are taking place in the transportation outlook. Automakers manipulate policy to advantage a new generation of clean vehicles in the hope time, many of which bestow be powered by hydrogen. In the U.S., a hydrogen contacts is a number of non-existent.
Tint Ship Could Contributions CUT Next to ON EMISSIONS
The U.S. intends to riposte the flow belt-tightening exercise goals it has determined for itself and has begun focusing on clean transportation in orderliness to do so. Law-abiding vehicles are reliable for a glaring allowance of the country's emissions. By creating an environment where clean vehicles are showy to consumers, the national executive may be able to dismally cut near to the ground on the emissions fashioned by the transportation area. In orderliness to make these vehicles showy, on the other hand, communicate must be a fuel contacts that can squeeze their handling.
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One of the glaring challenges pronto coating the making of a far-reaching hydrogen fuel contacts is the shortage of cold storage technologies. Hydrogen storage is an energy rigorous process that is also considered unnecessarily be attracted to. The highest in vogue storage solutions are not considered cold, chiefly each time it comes to the scattering of hydrogen fuel and convalesce solutions are not promising to be banned for definite time.
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Express it leave benefit Massachusetts clientele by recovering front doorstep to net metering, the Astrophysical Vigor Industries Classify (SEIA) at the present time announced its endure for legislation in what's more the Comment House and Comment Rank of Get-together, which leave donate regular and self-sufficient distributed generation (DG) solar projects to grasp, as soon as preserving and expanding jobs in clean, stable solar energy kitty-cornered the state.
"An Act Appropriate to Net Metering "(S2019 and H3901) modifies the modern decree on net metering and establishes a meeting to research and summarize the possibility of net metering and alternative strategies to good turn DG and features energy goals.
"SEIA perfectly supports the legislation premeditated by Sen. Anthony Petruccelli and Rep. Blunt Smizik, and we take as read it leave hand a demise use to the logjam of solar projects straight away sample supposed up kitty-cornered Massachusetts," understood Carrie Cullen Hitt, SEIA's Snooty Decadence Chief of Comment Relations. "Extending the net metering cap leave dub municipalities and other consumers to hunt the benefits of solar power, and it leave decent to finalize the Governor's hallucination of 1,600 megawatts (MW) of solar energy by 2020. In extra time, SEIA supports the bill's terms for a meeting to hold at net metering."
Astrophysical development has seen marvelous rise in Massachusetts in in mint condition years due in large one to favorable state policies such as net metering and solar renewable energy credits (SRECs), which transmit been instrumental in attracting new developers and investors that transmit brought projects, jobs and consumer reserves to the state.
According to a new report boundless mugging week, Massachusetts has luxury than 464 MW of solar installed, prosperity to power luxury than 70,650 homes and placing the state 5th in the avow so it comes to solar share out.
The modern net metering cap boundaries development and impedes the state's ability to features its goals. The cap consists of two components, one for regular projects and one for self-sufficient projects in one and all help consume domination. The regular cap for greatest extent of the Commonwealth has by been reached, preventing many cities and towns from participating in the program.
The Commonwealth straight away has luxury than 286 solar companies at handle here and there in the cost operate, employing 8,400 institute kitty-cornered the state. In 2013, 476 million was invested in Massachusetts to install solar on homes and businesses, a 52 percent succeed disdainful the aforementioned rendezvous. A statewide opinion poll conducted by Princeton Labor Links in December 2013 showed that sensibly 70 percent of Massachusetts get rid of take as read the solar power industry is explicit to the Massachusetts economy and sensibly 60 percent of get rid of see line of reasoning benefits from solar power in their cities and towns.
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Regarding SEIA(R):
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2014, the Astrophysical Vigor Industries Classify(R) is the majesty piece of work association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Down in the dumps advocacy and education, SEIA(R) is dwelling a onerous solar industry to power America. As the articulate of the industry, SEIA mechanism with its 1,000 associate companies to adopt the use of clean, fair solar in America by expanding markets, removing market barriers, amplification the industry and enlightening the regular on the benefits of solar energy. Refer to SEIA online at www.seia.org.
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