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India’ Off-grid Rural Segment the Largest PV Market Segment in India The India PV market grew 22% Y/Y, reaching 44 MW in 2009. Despite this, the growth was lower than expected, with incentive programs lacking success. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) released its National Solar Mission, outlining planned growth of the PV market to 20-22 GW by 2022. While the global financial crisis had a moderate affect upon government funds allocation, national elections during 2010 slowed several government bureaus to a halt, delaying procurement and distribution activities until later in the year. Nonetheless, the project pipeline stands at 4.9 GW at June 2010.
South Korea Market Drops Dramatically in 2009 South Korea’s PV market decreased in size by 65% falling from 276 MW in 2008 to just 98 MW in 2009. With over half of the aggregate 500 MW program cap reserved in just the first few months of launch for a program initially designed to ramp up steadily through 2011, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) was forced to establish an annual installation cap. This caused the collapse in installations. Additionally, in September 2009 the FIT rates were adjusted downward for the 2010-2011 period to reflect falling module prices and encourage greater numbers of smaller, building-mounted systems.
Australia PV Growth Driven By Residential Market Consumer demand in the residential sector drove Australia’s PV market in 2009, growing 222% Y/Y to 74 MW. Specifically 80% of all capacity installed was for on-grid residential use. As the majority of Australia’s electricity is produced with cheap coal, PV market growth in recent years was steady, rather than explosive. The Australia government revised its Solar Flagships program—aiming to commission 150 MW of PV power by 2015. In addition, every region has, or will have, a PV- specific FIT or net-metering policy in 2010.
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40GB/s VCSEL technology for next generation optical communications demonstrated by IQE
IQE plc has published a joint paper in Electronic Letters entitled “40 Gbit/s error-free operation of an oxide-confined 850nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL)
The paper reports on the significant demonstration of IQE’s VCSEL materials capability for high data transfer rate optical transmission required for applications such as Active Optical Cables and Intel’s LightPeak.
Existing copper interconnects between consumer devices such as BluRay DVD and High Definition TVs are limited to data transfer rates of 0.48GB/s. Furthermore, transmission distances for copper interconnects decrease significantly at higher transmission rates.
The first generation of optical cables are designed to support data transfer speeds of up to 10GB/s which is well within the 40GB/s demonstrated by IQE and its partners in the European Union funded Vertically Integrated Systems for Information Transfer (VISIT) programme.
The devices demonstrated in this project set a new world record for data transmission at 850nm which is the standard wavelength used for peripheral and LAN optical interconnects.
Mr. Andrew Joel, Product Director said:
“IQE has established a clear leadership position in VCSEL technology which has uniquely positioned the group to exploit its expertise in the next generation of high speed optical cables to meet the demands of ever increasing data transfer rates for consumer, industrial, automotive and aerospace applications.
“High speed optical interconnects such as Intel’s August/September 2010
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