pv ireland

German PV manufacturer Solarwatt has named its first two partners that will help formulate its expansion into the UK and Irish domestic markets.

In-house market research conducted by Solar Media Ltd can now reveal exclusively that the UK added 223MW of new solar PV during the second quarter of 2016.

Lauren Cook, market analyst at Solar Media, looks at the types of developers vying for position in the nascent solar market of Ireland ahead of the government’s policy framework expected in the coming months.

Often, with potential new solar markets, there can be a lot of hype and uncertainty regarding precisely how much deployment to expect and the timelines for this new capacity to come online. Lauren Cook, analyst for Solar Intelligence, discusses the potential for solar in Ireland in the years to 2020 and beyond.

Lightsource has connected what is claimed to be Northern Ireland’s first utility-scale solar farm near Belfast International Airport.