PVPS Report: Trends in Photovoltaic Applications 2015

20th  edition of the international survey report on Trends in Photovoltaic (PV) Applications up to 2014 provided by the IEA PVPS Programme.

The IEA PVPS countries represented more than 156 GW of cumulative PV installations altogether, mostly grid-connected, at the end of 2014. The other 38 countriesthat have been considered and are not part of the IEA PVPS Programme represented 21 additional GW, mostly in Europe: UK with close to 5,3 GW, Greece with 2,6 GW, Czech Republic with 2,1 GW installed, Romania with 1,2 GW and Bulgaria with 1,0 GW and below the GW mark Ukraine and Slovakia. Outside of Europe, the major countries that accounted for the highest cumulative installations in 2014 were India with more than 3 GW, South Africa with 0,9 GW, Taiwan with 0,6 GW and in Chile with 0,4 GW. Numerous countries all over the world have started to develop PV but few have yet reached a significant development level in terms of cumulative installed capacity at the end of 2014 outside the ones mentioned above