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The Coming US Distributed Solar Boom
Opportunities and risks in a cost-competitive market
Shayle Kann: June 14, 2013

In the first quarter of this year there were 71.3 megawatts of residential solar installed in California’s three investor-owned utility territories, according to our just-released U.S. Solar Market Insight report. Of that total, 13.2 megawatts (18.5 percent) were installed without the support of rebates from the California Solar Initiative (CSI) or any other state-level program.

It would be hard to overstate the significance of this, so I’ll reiterate. In the first three months of this year, around 3,000 residential solar installations were completed in California with no state incentives. These installations did benefit from a number of things: full retail net metering (we’ll come back to this), the federal Investment Tax Credit and accelerated depreciation, and California’s relatively solar-friendly rate structures. But even so, this is emblematic of a sea change in the solar industry and, even more importantly, the energy industry.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articl...ted-solar-boom

Turkey: over 3 GW of projects submitted for licensing
14. June 2013 | Markets & Trends, Applications & Installations, Top News | By: Hans Christoph Neidlein/Jonathan Gifford

More than five times the initial quota of larger photovoltaic projects to be developed under Turkey’s FIT program has been submitted to the relevant regulatory authority. No foreign developers have been listed as applicants to be considered in the initial round.

Turkey continues to attract much attention from the international photovoltaic industry, as the first rounds of the licensing program for larger projects closed today. According to information provided to pv magazine by Enerparc, the Turkish Energy Regulatory Authority (EPDK) has received over 3 GW of applications for licenses for larger projects throughout the week, far exceeding the 600 MW cap set by the EPDK for the first round of licenses.

Licensing rounds began on Monday of this week and closed on Friday.

http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/deta...ing_100011727/