A residential PV system put in in Austria by GW Energie.
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From pv journal Germany
The Austrian vitality company, OeMAG, has accepted round 90,700 functions from house homeowners on this 12 months’s first part of the rebate scheme for rooftop PV and storage. This quantity additionally contains functions left over from final 12 months that had been resubmitted and associated to PV techniques not exceeding 20 kW in measurement.
As well as, the ministry accepted one other 9,300 functions associated to PV installations with a capability from 20 kW to 1 MW. As well as, there are one other 33,000 functions for battery storage techniques being accepted.
The primary sight of the plot had a price range of €323 million ($353.9 million). In complete, this 12 months’s price range quantities to €600 million.
“It is nice information that so many individuals have contributed to it. Greater than 100,000 functions is an absolute report,” mentioned Power Minister Leonore Gewessler at a press convention on Thursday. “Nevertheless it’s additionally a problem. Now’s the time to push for extra growth in a rational method. Different nations have good experiences in eliminating VAT. We have to talk about that severely,” the minister continued.
Austria reached 4.2 GW cumulative PV capability on the finish of December. Final 12 months, it deployed about 1.4 GW of photo voltaic, a lot of it because of the help offered by the rebate scheme.
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