Workers work at Asia's first solar thermal tower power station under construction in Yanqing in Beijing, China on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. With an investment of 120 million yuan, the solar thermal tower power plant will achieve grid at the end of this year and has an annual capacity of 2.7 million kwh of electricity, equivalent to eliminating 2,300 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from conventional power plants.(Photo By Liang Baohai/Color China Photo/AP Images) Photo: Liang Baohai/ColorChinaPhoto
Asia-Pacific drives PV as market shifts to emerging regions
An 80% surge in demand for solar PV systems in the second half of the year across the Asia-Pacific region will represent a transition from the more established markets in Europe to new and emerging regions, a leading industry researcher says.