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Green Power Conferences, one of the leading renewable energy event organizers will bring together the UK’s key solar luminaries at the upcoming Solar Economics Forum, Towards Grid Parity between the 16^th and 18^th of June. The forum, to be held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel & Conference Centre in London will bring the industry’s leaders together to focus on the potential for market growth in the 3 main photovoltaic sectors, Silicon-wafer based PV, Thin Film PV and CSP.

The conference series, which attracted over 1000 attendees in 2008 will be sure to attract similar hordes of attendees as awareness of the market feasibility of the solar industry has become more widespread over recent months. The Solar Economics forum will provide those within the industry with an opportunity to meet manufacturers, installers, government representatives, banking and financing experts and many more key industry players at the London forum.

Key speakers will include:

Peter Hain, MP- Former Energy Minister & Member of Parliament

Hans-Josef Fell – Member of the German Parliament and Vice- President, EUROSOLAR

Jeremy Leggett – Executive Chairman, Solarcentury

Andrew Marsden – Managing Director Europe, GE Energy Financial Services

Jerry Stokes – President, Suntech Europe

Chris O’Brien – Head of Market Development, Oerlikon Solar

For full information on this conference and how it could benefit anyone involved in or wishing to learn more about the industry and its prospects, please visit:

http://www2.greenpowerconferences.co.uk/v812/Prospectus/Index.php?sEventCode=SP0906UK

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The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the heads of the worlds leading solar companies have met in Poznan, Poland to discuss the development and implementation of global policies designed to help the growth of the solar industry internationally and to lead the way in the reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHC) in order to meet climate goals.

Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech’s Chairman and CEO, Jeremy Leggett, Executive Chairman of Solarcentury, Mike Ahearn, Chairman and CEO of First Solar, and Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director strongly advocated solar energy as a viable energy production solution which should be taken up by governments around the globe:

“Solar technology is no longer a niche energy solution, but is already reaching the scale and cost points to fundamentally change the way we generate electricity. As a result of substantial investments over the past 5 years, the solar industry has dramatically improved solar technologies and established roadmaps for further cost reductions. In fact, electricity generated from solar installations is already reaching parity with peak energy and retail energy prices in many regions.”

The conference concluded that the following objectives are the key to meeting GHG- reduction and economic-development goals:

·          Stringent, ambitious, international and national carbon regulation policies

·          Enforceable renewables mandates with a solar carve out or credit multiplier for solar energy

·          Near-term incentives that could include feed-in tariffs, partial rebates, tax credits and/or property-based loans

·          Favourable net metering, interconnection, permitting and land-use policies.

The recent UK Energy Bill will certainly have pleased the consortium as it gives provisions for the implementation of feed-in tariffs by 2010 which are seen as being fundamental to the setting up of a coherent renewable energy solution. The plans are for the government to guarantee a fixed, premium rate for energy fed back into the national grid by small, renewable energy producers and will be essential to the UK meeting its climate change goals.

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