By: JamesWimberley

JamesWimberley — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:46:00 +0000

From the reports, Bloomberg’s database focuses on the utility and commercial projects that get press coverage. The smaller the installation, the less comprehensive their coverage gets. For residential and small commercial rooftop, a few countries like Germany, the UK and Japan have national FITs and therefore accurate real-time data on grid-connected installations; ou can ignore the very few off-grid panels. But in others, data collection is a growing problem. Even in the USA, estimates are laborious and late; and how do you get half-way decent ones for China, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil? Residential solar is likely to be increasingly underestimated.

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By: JamesWimberley