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ENDNOTES 02 MARKET AND INDUSTRY TRENDS - SOLAR PV<br />

scatec-solar-launches-egyptian-activities-towards-building-250-<br />

mw-of-solar_100021715/; Burger, op. cit. note 79.<br />

83 Beetz, op. cit. note 80. See also: Ian Clover, “SkyPower<br />

announces $440m, 200 MW Djibouti solar plans,” PV Magazine,<br />

2 October 2015, http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/<br />

beitrag/skypower-announces-440m--200-mw-djibouti-solarplans_100021344/;<br />

“Akuo Energy: Signature of the largest solar<br />

project in West Africa, with the Malian government,” Tecsol, 24<br />

October 2015, http://tecsol.blogs.com/mon_weblog/2015/10/<br />

akuo-energy-signature-du-grand-projet-solaire-dafriquede-louest-avec-le-gouvernement-malien.html<br />

(using Google<br />

Translate); Ian Clover, “Nigeria signs $100m development deal<br />

for 50 MW solar farm,” PV Magazine, 11 November 2015, http://<br />

www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/nigeria-signs-<br />

100m-development-deal-for-50-mw-solar-farm_100021935/;<br />

Katherine Tweed, “Ignite Power will bring solar to 250,000<br />

homes in Rwanda by 2018,” Greentech Media, 1 February 2016,<br />

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ignite-powerwill-bring-solar-to-250000-homes-in-rwanda-by-2018;<br />

Solar<br />

Solutions West Africa, “Top 20 – largest solar PV projects West<br />

Africa,” http://www.solarsolutionswestafrica.com/top20-solarpv-projects-west-africa/,<br />

viewed 6 April 2016; REN21, SADC<br />

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Status Report 2015<br />

(Paris: 2015), http://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/<br />

REN21_SADC_Report_web.pdf.<br />

84 Becky Beetz, “Off-grid solar market worth $300<br />

million annually,” PV Magazine, 27 October 2015,<br />

http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/<br />

off-grid-solar-market-worth-300-million-annually_100021728/.<br />

85 Shem Oirere, “Coping with a lack of skilled solar workers in<br />

Africa,” Solar Novus, 22 March 2016, http://www.solarnovus.com/<br />

coping-with-lack-of-skilled-solar-workers-in-africa_N9799.html.<br />

86 IEA PVPS, op. cit. note 3, p. 59.<br />

87 Early 2016 data (through February 2016) from the following<br />

sources: Denis Lenardic, “Large-scale PV power plants – Top<br />

50,” pvresources, http://pvresources.com/en/pvpowerplants/<br />

top50pv.php, updated 28 February 2016; Denis Lenardic, “Largescale<br />

PV power plants – Ranking 51–100,” pvresources, http://<br />

pvresources.com/en/pvpowerplants/top100pv.php, updated 18<br />

February 2016; Denis Lenardic, “Large-scale PV power plants<br />

– Ranking 101–150,” pvresources, http://pvresources.com/en/<br />

pvpowerplants/top150pv.php, updated 1 January 2016; Denis<br />

Lenardic, pvresources, personal communication with REN21, 29<br />

February 2016. Uruguay commissioned La Jacinta Solar Farm (50<br />

MW) in 2015, from Uruguay Secretary of Energy, Ministerio de<br />

Industria, Energía y Minería, personal communication with REN21,<br />

29 April 2016. Note that towards the end of 2015, the Wiki-Solar<br />

Database included over 5,000 utility-scale projects (defined as<br />

4 MW (AC) and up) that represented more than 120 GW of solar<br />

generating capacity worldwide, from Wiki-Solar, “The Wiki-Solar<br />

Database,” http://wiki-solar.org/data/index.html, viewed 29<br />

March 2016. There were at least 70 projects and 14 countries in<br />

early 2015, based on idem and Lenardic, personal communication,<br />

op. cit. this note.<br />

88 Lenardic, “Large-scale PV power plants – Top 50,” op. cit. note 88;<br />

Lenardic, “Large-scale PV power plants – Ranking 51–100,” op.<br />

cit. note 88; Lenardic, “Large-scale PV power plants – Ranking<br />

101–150,” op. cit. note 88.<br />

89 Denis Lenardic, pvresources, personal communication with<br />

REN21, 6 March 2016.<br />

90 Figure of 33 from Denis Lenardic, pvresources, personal<br />

communications with REN21, 29 February and 6 March 2016.<br />

For large-scale projects of about 4 MW and up, see “Global<br />

utility-scale solar reaches annual record yet again,” Solar Industry<br />

Magazine, 7 March 2016, http://solarindustrymag.com/globalutility-scale-solar-reaches-annual-record-yet-again;<br />

Eric Wesoff,<br />

“Solar Star, largest PV power plant in the world, now operational,”<br />

Greentech Media, 26 June 2015, http://www.greentechmedia.<br />

com/articles/read/Solar-Star-Largest-PV-Power-Plant-in-the-<br />

World-Now-Operational; Solar Star’s capacity in DC is 747.3<br />

MW, from Mortenson, “Solar Star I and II, Rosamond, CA,” http://<br />

www-cm.mortenson.com/solar/projects/solar-star-i-and-ii,<br />

viewed 15 April 2016. The Longyangxia Project in Qinghai Province<br />

is a hybrid plant with solar PV coupled directly to one of four<br />

turbines at the nearby 1,280 MW hydropower station. The 320 MW<br />

solar PV plant was expanded to 850 MW, and became operational<br />

in 2015, per Frank Haugwitz, AECEA, personal communication<br />

with REN21, April 2016, and Mathis Rogner, International<br />

Hydropower Association (IHA), personal communication with<br />

REN21, 26 April 2016. See also IHA, “Briefing: 2016 Key Trends<br />

in Hydropower” (London: 2016), https://www.hydropower.<br />

org/sites/default/files/publications-docs/2016%20Key%20<br />

Trends%20in%20Hydropower.pdf, p. 3, and China State Power<br />

Investment Corporation, “World’s largest hydro/PV hybrid project<br />

synchronized,” 31 December 2014, http://eng.cpicorp.com.cn/<br />

NewsCenter/CorporateNews/201501/t20150116_242766.htm.<br />

91 Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and US<br />

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Current Status<br />

of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) Technology (Freiburg,<br />

Germany and Golden, CO: February 2016), pp. 6, 7, https://<br />

www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/publications/veroeffentlichungenpdf-dateien-en/studien-und-konzeptpapiere/current-status-ofconcentrator-photovoltaic-cpv-technology.pdf.<br />

CPV entered the<br />

marketplace only in the mid-2000s, with the first plant exceeding<br />

1 MW installed in Spain during 2006. The technology is still young<br />

and a small player, and there remains a lack of reliable data on all<br />

fronts, from idem, pp. 7, 10.<br />

92 Simon P. Philipps et al., Current Status of Concentrator<br />

Photovoltaic (CPV) Technology (Freiburg, Germany and Golden,<br />

CO: Fraunhofer ISE and NREL, January 2015), p. 6, http://www.<br />

ise.fraunhofer.de/en/publications/veroeffentlichungen-pdfdateien-en/studien-und-konzeptpapiere/current-status-ofconcentrator-photovoltaic-cpv-technology.pdf;<br />

Alexandre Roesch,<br />

SolarPower Europe, personal communication with REN21, 7 April<br />

2016.<br />

93 Projects came online in China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa,<br />

the United States and some countries in Europe, based on<br />

data provided at CPV Consortium, “Listing projects,” http://<br />

cpvconsortium.org/projects, viewed 19 March 2016, and from<br />

Fraunhofer ISE and NREL, op. cit. note 91, p. 11; cancelled from<br />

Masson, op. cit. note 2. In 2015 around 17 MW was newly installed,<br />

from Fraunhofer ISE and NREL, op. cit. note 91. For additional<br />

information, see also IHS, Top Solar Power Industry Trends for<br />

2015 (Englewood, CO: 2015), https://www.ihs.com/pdf/Top-Solar-<br />

Power-Industry-Trends-for-2015_213963110915583632.pdf.<br />

94 Fraunhofer ISE and NREL, op. cit. note 91, p. 5. More than 90%<br />

of capacity was high-concentration PV (HCPV) with two-axis<br />

tracking, from idem, p. 6.<br />

95 In Italy, solar PV generated 24,676 GWh of electricity in 2015,<br />

up by 13% over 2014, according to preliminary statistics from<br />

Terna, cited in Ilias Tsagas, “Solar PV provides 7.8 percent of<br />

Italy’s electricity in 2015,” Renewable Energy World, 11 February<br />

2016, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/02/<br />

solar-pv-provides-7-8-percent-of-italy-s-electricity-in-2015;<br />

Greece based on 3,658 GWh of solar PV generation and total<br />

electricity consumption of 56.4 TWh in 2015, for a solar PV<br />

share of 6.48%, from ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΟΣ ΑΓΟΡΑΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΙΚΗΣ<br />

ΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΑΣ A.E., Μηνιαίο Δελτίο Ειδικού Λογαριασμού ΑΠΕ &<br />

ΣΗΘΥΑ (Pireas: December 2015), provided by Ioannis Tsipouridis,<br />

R.E.D. Pro Consultants S.A., Athens, personal communication<br />

with REN21, 25 April 2016; Germany data is preliminary and for<br />

gross electricity consumption, from BMWi, op. cit. note 54; solar<br />

PV generation of 5.9% (share of gross electricity generation), from<br />

AG Energiebilanzen, “Bruttostromerzeugung in Deutschland ab<br />

1990 nach Energieträgern,” 28 January 2016, provided by AGEE-<br />

Stat, personal communication with REN21, 4 April 2016.<br />

96 Figures of 3.5% and 7% from IEA PVPS, op. cit. note 1, p. 6;<br />

estimated nearly 4% of total from SolarPower Europe, op. cit.<br />

note 2, p. 4; data for 2008 from Gaëtan Masson, “Editorial: 2013, a<br />

qualified record-year for photovoltaics,” EPIA, March 2014, http://<br />

www.epia.org/news/news/?page=1#news-278.<br />

97 Figure of 22 countries from IEA PVPS, op. cit. note 1, pp. 6, 16. An<br />

estimated 17 out of 28 EU member states had enough to generate<br />

at least 1% of electricity with solar PV at end-2015, from Schmela,<br />

op. cit. note 52.<br />

98 Frank Haugwitz, AECEA, personal communication with REN21, 11<br />

April 2016.<br />

99 IEA PVPS, op. cit. note 1, pp. 17, 18. Estimate for electricity<br />

generation is theoretical calculation based on average yield and<br />

installed solar PV capacity as of 31 December 2015.<br />

100 Back on their feet from Haugwitz, op. cit. note 98; consolidate<br />

from Masson, op. cit. note 2.<br />

101 Consolidation into downstream (including O&M and EPC) from<br />

Theologitis, op. cit. note 32; focusing on markets elsewhere from<br />

Alexandra S. Mebane, “An in-depth interview with JinkoSolar’s<br />

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