Mission possible? Not yet July, 2010: Delays to India’s National Solar Mission and a potential lockout of foreign cells and modules means that the program is still a work in progress A niche market? July, 2010: China, widely seen as the PV factory to the world, is preparing for a large-scale solar rooftop market. Multi-megawatt systems in Asia-Pacific June, 2010: 20 MW in eastern China connects to the grid: Silicon and wafer manufacturer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. has completed a 20 MW system. Multi-megawatt systems in Asia-Pacific May, 2010: Megawatt project with German assistance: In Ayutthaya, around 70 km north of Bangkok, Conergy Pte. Ltd. Singapore, a subsidiary of Germany-based Conergy AG, together with local installation partner Annex Solar Ltd., is building a solar park with 3 MW of power. Ready for a new takeoff? May, 2010: A Japanese PV subsidy program that has been reinvigorating domestic sales for more than a year has gotten an extra lift from a limited PV feed-in tariff Chinese PV project announcement rekindles feed-in tariff hopes April, 2010: The possibility that feed-in tariffs will be selected as the financial mode of preference for supporting PV in China, PV’s factory to the world, has inched closer to reality over the past few months. Multi-megawatt systems in Asia-Pacific March, 2010: 13.5 MW planned for Liaoning province Taiwan’s new PV feed-in tariffs await application procedures March, 2010: A half a year after its parliament passed a renewable energy act (see PI 8/2009, p. 28) and just over a month after approval by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), the nation island of Taiwan put its first set of PV feed-in tariffs in to place on Jan. 25 with no upper limit on system size. Report on Japanese PV feed-in tariff expected in March February, 2010: A project team set up under Japan’s Ministry of Trade and Economy (METI) will issue a report by late March that could end up recommending the introduction of a feed-in tariff on all PV-generated electricity.  back