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German Solar PV industry demonstrates against cut of feed-in tariffs in the country

back Category: Weekly Video News Date: 2010/02/15

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Welcome to our 24^th edition of our weekly news update.

We start off today with the fantastic news that we are celebrating our 6^th month of broadcasting the most up to date and topical news relating to the SolarPV industry.

It’s been an exciting 6 months and we have seen a month by month increase in our viewership and are delighted that people from 125 different countries are now enjoying our weekly news updates.

It has not been such a great week for Sovello with news of their possible bankruptcy as a result of the EU’s decision to withdraw an $11.6 million grant. We also hear that the German market is progressing nicely with excellent Q4 results.

Although with FIT’s coming in to affect soon it seems unlikely that this trend will continue, in fact Suntech say that these measures will probably prompt solar companies to ship excess panels to the United States, pressuring equipment there.

We also hear how Yingli Green Energy is playing its part in the 2010 world Cup. We have plenty more news from Israel to the USA, please take a moment to view our news and make sure that you are up to speed with all the current events in the SolarPV world.

Seen as we are celebrating 6 months we thought it might be a good time to remind you of some of our achievements. He have interviewed ministers and CEO’s and provided country updates from Italy and France. We also brought you Industry updates from our partners “isuppli”. We have attended some of the biggest events and brought you exciting reportages from these events. We hope you enjoyed them, we enjoyed bringing them to you.

We also invite you to watch an interview with Dr. Uros Merc, Co-founder and CEO of BISOL, titled: Quality a key to success

In SolarPV.TV Recycling Focus we are bringing you two short interviews taken at the 1st International Conference on PV module recycling organized by PV CYCLE and EPIA in collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
Today we invite you to watch:

1st interview with Lisa Krueger, VP Sustainable Development at First Solar who speaks about their Collection and recycling program

2nd interview with Marc Suys, EH&S Manager at 5N Plus who speaks about Major challenges in recycling of thin film modules as well as 5NPV's recycling experience.

During the conference we did the following interviews, which are being uploaded constantly on SolarPV.TV:

"PV Cycle today and tomorrow", Dr. Karsten Wambach, President of PV CYCLE
"Making the Photovoltaic Industry 'Double Green'", Jan Clyncke, Managing Director of PV CYCLE
Recycling per Module Technology - State-of-the-Art
- Thin Film
  - "First Solar’s Collection and Recycling Program", Interview with Lisa Krueger, VP Sustainable Development, First Solar
  - "Major challenges in recycling of thin film modules", Marc Suys, EH&S Manager, 5N Plus
- Crystaline
  - "Major challenges related to recycling of Solar PV modules", Dr. Sylke Schlenker, Head of Marketing, Sunicon AG
Recycling activities in USA
- "US should follow efforts started by PV CYCLE in Europe", Prof. Vasilis Fthenakis, Head, National Photovoltaic EH&S Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Recycling experiences from other sectors, with:
- "Differences in recycling of Solar PV modules and electronic sector", Thierry Dalle Business Development and Project Manager, Umicore Recycling Solutions
- "Synergies between TV monitor recycling and Solar PV", Dr. Eckart Doering - Manager Batch Supply, Glass Ceramics & Borofloat at Schott AG

On last Thursday we brought you our first interview with PV CYCLE's President, Dr. Karsten Wambach, one of “fathers” of the association: PV CYCLE today and tomorrow

Today we are bringing you our first interview with Dr. Sylke Schlenker, Head of Marketing at Sunicon AG titled: Major challenges related to recycling of Solar PV modules