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Belgium future
Solarplaza is holding an upcoming conference, “The Solar Future: Belgium,” to look at how the region is coping after the huge input for 2009 and subsequent market dynamics as subsidies change.
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2010, with an 88% share for Flanders. Growth rate has deteriorated, but the market for smaller installations remains promising states Solarplaza as they gear up for an upcoming forum on the Belgium market.
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Growth in Belgium’s largest market, Flanders, regulated by VREG, has cooled down in 2010. There was a big rush at the end of 2009 (11.000 installation requests in December), but it is not yet clear to which “realization” year these installations will be allocated. According to official VREG publications, there are some striking differences in the data published by branch organization BelPV.
With 245.1 MW growth (2009) and the accumulation of 334.3 (2009) and 654.4 MW (2010), preliminary VREG-registered growth in 2010 would be 320.1 MW. However, BelPV claims 412.7 MW accumulation in 2009 and 165.0 MW in 2010. These huge differences most probably result from diverging interpretations of what should be
ccumulated photovoltaic capacity in Belgium could be 740 MW end of
considered a “grid-connected PV system.” Adding together the 2009-2010 growth numbers, the difference is only 2.2%: VREG 565.2 MW, BelPV 577.7 MW. BelPV estimated that for additional PV- capacity in 2009, households in Flanders would have paid 0.13 Eurocents/kWh extra on their average electricity price (€ 0,17/kWh). Registration of the larger installations such as the 40 MW Katoen Natie project can take a long time. However, 64% of applications in this category
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