APPLICATIONINVERTERS
Feed remuneration for solar power plants in Great Britain < 4 kW BIPV < 4 kW BIPV 4 to 10 kW
(new (existing construction)
buildings)
Remuneration GBP euro GBP euro GBP euro GBP euro GBP euro GBP euro April’10
to March’11 April’11
to March’12 April’12
to March’13 Source: EPIA
1 Euro = 0.8539 GBP, status as of 29 December 2010 BIPV: building integrated photovoltaics
and 330 kilowatts). Inverters from these series all meet the British standards “Engineering Recommendation G83/1” and “G59/2” and have the parameters for Great Britain already integrated.
“The British solar market is in its early stages at the moment and we are among its most important players,” adds Freudiger.
The share of renewable energy remains far below the EU average, but Great Britain has ambitious goals and intends to boost its contribution to 30 percent by 2020. Photovoltaics should play an important role in this development and a feed-in act with lucrative rates has been promoting power from solar plants since April 2010.
The amount of the remuneration depends on the size of the plant and the type of installation. While building-integrated systems with as much four kilowatts output receive 42.3 cents per kilowatt hour, systems between 100 kilowatts and five megawatts output are paid 34.3 cents per kilowatt hour (see table).
Every two years there is a degression which is linked to inflation. So remuneration can also rise. In addition to inverters for solar plants on farms Sputnik Engineering has already delivered many devices for individual family homes and industrial roofs in Britain. No matter whether the device is installed on the roof of a house, a cattle stall, industrial building or as part of a megawatt power plant—Sputnik Engineering has the optimum device in their product range for all applications in
Great Britain. To get closer to their customers and improve flexibility in the booming market the Swiss manufacturer founded a branch office in London in January, 2011. The person to contact there is the key account manager Neil Martin, who comes to the job with 16 years of career experience.
“Sputnik Engineering is entering the market at just the right moment to establish itself early in the British market,” says Martin. “Since the introduction of the new remuneration rates the
attractiveness of photovoltaic plants in Great Britain has increased enormously.”
0.361 0.423 0.413 0.484 0.361 0.423 0.314 0.368 0.293 0.343 0.293 0.343 0.361 0.423 0.413 0.484 0.361 0.423 0.314 0.368 0.293 0.343 0.293 0.343 0.361 0.423 0.398 0.466 0.330 0.387 0.287 0.336 0.268 0.314 0.268 0.314
10 to 100 kW 100 kW to 5 MW Standalone
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