From
2016, the requirement that all new homes built in the UK must be "zero carbon"
has helped to galvanise the house building industry to deploy solar PV. According to Suki Matharu, a U.K. sales
manager for Chinese inverter producer Omnik New Energy, installing solar PV panels is
a way for developers and builders to comply with regulations, affordably. The
company’s smallest single phase inverter,
the Omniksol-1k-TL, has been a popular choice for new build homes with PV installations during the past year.
Jason
McCabe, an engineer at solar mounting
systems supplier Renusol, concurs: "Compared with a few years ago, there is
definitely more interest from the home building and construction firms," he
told pv
magazine. McCabe estimates that a good 20% of the new build construction
industry is now implementing solar technology –PV as well
as solar
thermal – in projects.
Companies include Persimmon Homes and Taylor Wimpey.
"We
have been following the policy developments in the U.K. with great attention and
we now define it as the most important
market for us in Europe," says Wuxi Suntech's new CEO Eric Luo, especially
within the residential rooftop and the utility-scale ground-mounted segment. Luo cites a radical
renewables policy, and plans under the Energy Act 2013, to introduce a strike
price for large-scale PV developments as contributing factors.
The
acquisition of Wuxi Suntech by Shunfeng will mean that in addition to module manufacturing the company plans to expand
into the downstream end of the PV industry
to serve the U.K. as well as other markets.
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