2011
was
a
breakout
year
for
the
British
PV
sector,
with
700MW
of
new
capacity
installed
–
compared
to
the
50MW
that
had
been
added
cumulatively
until
then,
according
to
the
European
Photovoltaic
Industry
Association
(EPIA).
That
surge
made
the
UK
one
of
the
world’s
fastest-growing
PV
markets,
and
the
eighth-largest
globally
–
ahead
of
sunnier
European
countries
like
Spain
(400MW)
and
Greece
(350MW),
and
more
than
twice
the
size
of
emerging
solar
hot
spots
like
India
(300MW).
But
experts
agree
that
a
variety
of
factors
will
conspire
to
shrink
the…
