Comments on: Global Solar Installations Advanced 20% In 2013 2nd Quarter http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/28/global-solar-installations-advanced-20-2013-2nd-quarter/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/28/global-solar-installations-advanced-20-2013-2nd-quarter/#comment-184009 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:07:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56711#comment-184009 It´s worth remembering that the quality of the data is getting worse. When the PV market was dominated by Germany, so were the data: generated by an efficient bureaucracy applying a simple and standardises scheme of registration which PV owners had to follow to enjoy above-market FITs. Lokk at it now. Even in Germany, the FIT is so low that some plug-and-play solar is going in unregistered. Of the countries that have replaced Germany as leaders, only Japan has the same level of organisation. The USA market is fragmented, so the national data are late. China and India are still poor countries with inefficient ground-level bureaucracies. As PV spreads to Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Saudi Arabia …, the only good source will come to be the sales reports of quoted PV firms. But this is not a very concentrated industry, and the sysnthesis wil be incomplete.

]]> By: Ivor O'Connor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/28/global-solar-installations-advanced-20-2013-2nd-quarter/#comment-183962 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:28:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56711#comment-183962 While tracking down the sources backwards I get:

-1) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/18/us-solar-installations-surged-quarter-2-2013/
-2) http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-industry-data

Now at the SEIA I see there are lots of social media flavors but no RSS feed? I don’t do social media willingly. (Unless I can’t find a gun in which case I raise my hands and give up.) Surely a big organization like the SEIA has RSS?!?!

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