IN DEPTH: Trina sees UK PV surge

Trina's Ben Hill

The UK has emerged as the most important PV growth market in the EU, with at least 800MW likely to be installed in the first quarter of 2013, predicts Ben Hill, Trina Solar’s president for Europe.

Although the overall EU solar market “may dip a little” in 2013, there are interesting opportunities in a number of countries, including Denmark, France and Italy, Hill says.

But the UK looks like the surest bet for safe, sustained growth in the medium term, and has become the primary focus of Trina’s European project-development team.

Even after the amount of Renewables Obligation certificates offered to large PV systems is reduced in April – to 1.6 ROCs per MWh, from the current 2 ROCs – Trina still sees ground-mounted arrays as “a good, sustainable…

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