contents Around the world...
07 News roundup 16 Optimism reigns in solar circles Insights into the future growth of the solar market, development of a large scale PV production line from a university research laboratory project and technologies to boost cell efficiency all featured at the recent Advances in Photovolatics conference hosted by the Institute of Physics in London.
22 Sticking for the long term Working together with suppliers is common in any technology manufacturing industry but is vital when you are developing new technology requiring similar warranties of a quarter of a century offered by comparable technologies.
26 What’s quality got to do with sustainability? The solar and PV industries are changing as oversupply and over generous subsidies move back towards a realistic keel.
30 Concentrated Growth Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) sometimes gets overlooked as the battle of thin film versus silicon often hogs the limelight.
33 UK solar subsidy - FiT or fiasco? The UK government has announced another fast track review of the country’s Feed in Tariff (FiT) creating a storm of commentary from all sectors of the industry. Have the government got it completely wrong or are there good reasons for the changes?
42 Sunny health support in Gambia From now on clean drinking water and solar power will flow around the clock for the treatment of patients at the health centre “River Boat Doctors International” (RDI) in Buniadu, Gambia.
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