The market for solar energy in Ukraine

The Ukrainian market: an analysis of the current situation and possibilities of building an effective business.

The Energy Strategy of Ukraine.

The new energy strategy, approved by the Ukrainian government in early 2006, suggests that our state is almost four times the increase use of alternative energy sources to 10.9 million. Mr. t. e. (million. tonnes of oil equivalent) in 2005 to 40.4 million. Mr. t. e. in 2030. This initiative will require investment in the energy sector at a rate of about 60.4 billion. hryvnia, or 7.9 billion. euro. The greatest growth is expected to use. solar Energy. , Wind power and low-grade heat, but their mass application starts with a negligible level, since at present the total installed capacity (including small hydroelectric power station ) is only 0.18 GW. However, the total capacity of power plants producing electricity from alternative energy sources (excluding biofuels and small hydro ) should grow in 2030 to 2.1 GW.

The adopted strategy includes the development of renewable energy in compliance with the fundamental principles of European security strategy, competitive and sustainable energy. The Energy Strategy of Ukraine is established by a number of incentives to encourage production and use of energy from renewable sources, but most of them have not yet found a detailed reflection of the law.

The Ukrainian government is actively cooperating and implementing energy efficiency projects and the development of new and renewable energy sources with financial institutions and international organizations, such as NEFCO, ADEME, IFC, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank and other.

There is a program of state support for the development of alternative and renewable energy sources and small hydropower plants. The target for renewable energy in 2030 is 19 % of the total generation. Current funding, pledged in the State budget is limited only by the wind energy and not enough to significantly stimulate the development of the sector. Nevertheless, the EU allocates 319 million UAH (27.7 euros) to support the implementation of the Energy Strategy of Ukraine.

It is expected that Ukraine will be a big deal to experience some difficulties with debt financing because of the recession and in any case would require more sophisticated approaches to structuring. At the same time, international financial institutions to invest more funds in Ukraine. IFC announced it would invest about $ 500 million in 2010 to support the implementation of various projects ( including those related to energy). The EBRD approved a 50 million. dollars in the development of alternative energy in Ukraine. The World Bank will allocate 250 million. USD. The United States in 2010 for energy projects in Ukraine.

...

In 2009,. Ukrainian parliament adopted a law on subsidized rates for electricity produced from unconventional sources, m. e. ... Wholesale Electricity Market of Ukraine in the face of the State Enterprise ... ... ... for 1 euro ).

Producers of electricity from solar energy received the highest coefficients for the calculation of the tariff:.

4.4. - For power generation facilities are installed on roofs of buildings, houses and buildings, with a capacity of. up to 100 kW. As well as for facilities located on the facades of buildings, regardless of their power;.

4.6. - For power generation facilities are installed on roofs of buildings, houses and buildings, with a capacity of. More than 100 kW. ;.

4.8. - For terrestrial plants.

The tariff rate for peak hours is 1.8. This is provided by NERC Decree № 529 of 07.19.2005.

Therefore, in compliance with the law of ...

*) The calculation of ... The actual value of the ...

In addition, to obtain the ...

a. Starting from January 1, 2012,. proportion of materials, components and services of Ukrainian descent in the construction of solar power projects. shall be not less than 30 percent, and from January 1, 2014 - at least 50 percent.

2. Starting from January 1, 2011,. the proportion of materials and components of Ukrainian origin in the solar modules. That are used in the construction of solar power should be at least 30 percent.

The business model for companies working in the field of solar energy.

According to statements in the public domain closest to the implementation of this model, companies such as. ActivSolar. ,. SolarUA. and. quasar. As well as several newcomers who plan to occupy the market segment associated with the introduction of thin-film technology based on amorphous silicon. The other players of the domestic solar energy market focused on a narrower market segments, for example, only in the production of silicon ...

Production of components in Ukraine requires a clear understanding of target markets. The current situation is relatively favorable for the entry into foreign markets, but it involves a serious training in terms of technical excellence of the products and the ability to effectively compete with cheaper counterparts produced in other regions. On the other hand, the legal requirement of a 30% share of materials and components in the Ukrainian-made solar modules used in the construction of solar power, promotes the formation of the future domestic demand for such products.

Despite the considerable resources of solar energy, especially in southern areas of the country, the market for electricity generation using solar power in Ukraine is still in its infancy. The installed capacity of solar stations at the moment is only about 1 MW. Just a few MW will be commissioned in the coming months, although adverse weather conditions in the Crimea in the winter and some other factors may shift the launch of new facilities by spring 2011. All in all, according to the analytical prediction of GlobalData, the installed capacity of SES in Ukraine will be by 2015. about 157 MW, with an annual market growth of about 90 %.

Construction projects require solar power solutions rather disparate tasks. Here are some of them:.

• 
  search and selection of land for the installation of solar power plants with subsequent analysis of the effectiveness of the project, taking into account specific regional factors;.
  


• 
  system design and engineering;.
  


• 
  selection and purchase of equipment.
  


• 
  provision of permits and approvals to connect to ...
  


• 
  equipment installation and system testing;.
  


• 
  operation, monitoring and maintenance.
  

Solving these problems requires not only the ability to work on the Ukrainian market, but rather the specific expertise and technical nuances of designing and building solar power plants. Of course, over time, this experience is gained, and while the events may occur in several scenarios:.

a. Cooperation with large foreign players who have years of practical experience and a long list of completed projects. In this way the company went SolarUA, recently signed a cooperation agreement with an engineering company in the U.S..

2. The transfer of the general contract for the construction of solar power a foreign developer with relevant experience and qualifications. Based on available data, the path chosen Austrian ActivSolar, is building now in the Crimea, its first solar power plant.

3. Adapting the experience and knowledge gained during the implementation of projects for the construction of small and medium-sized projects in the larger facilities of alternative power. This path is the closest of Quasar, which has experience in implementing projects in different parts of the world.

Of course, in practice, the above scenarios can be combined with the realities of ongoing projects and lessons learned developer. But in any case, at the initial stage of the solar energy industry in Ukraine is co-operation with the world's leading developers of solar energy solutions guarantees the target level of capital investment and generate electricity and provide effective business building.

The article was published in. magazine ' Alternativnі dzherela energії '. , № 9-10 ( September-October 2010. ), With. 13-15.

When startups die

Many people think that good enough for a startup idea, good luck and a good organizer. However, it is not, though important. The idea, incidentally, may be inferior or cloned. Good luck can not be. Organizer? .

Startups need a plan. At first, he may be, and is not necessary, since it is unclear where all flies started the project. But as demand has gone, there were demanding consumers already can and should be something to plan. I do not remember a single project, where he was involved, who would not have changed since the first buyers. It always seems that you are the chief, an- not, the customer comes in and puts you in your place, and the startup is changing beyond recognition and full details of the inconsistencies in the original idea. Well, if the spirit of the idea remains. It happens that we have to part with him, as is the case with the first versions Epplovskih computers, when the idea of extending the capabilities of the PC finally took the IBM.

Start-up requires endurance and balance in difficult times. And not only heavy but also in moments of success. It is easy to break and change the plan to spend millions to start or hold the same millions in debt. And only then did stop, and nowhere - so far removed from the road once chosen, which is itself not understand how and why there was. Any startup has a purpose: to take market share, XXX earn money, chop cabbage and fall apart, to ensure a comfortable old age - but you never know. That is only to each goal is only one road. And be on the road or trail run, but to go - which means in effect kill the start-up, as there, the road is the other way, other startups.

Startup should defraud. In a sense, this is a consequence of previous thesis. You have not, but you're doing a new approach and defraud. Or another approach. or again,. And let the blood flowing from his ears and nose, but you have to doge and all previous efforts were in vain. A lot of startups are not broken because they were bad, but just suddenly changed the project manager and the new did not see why defraud. Yes, and that has not seen defraud. Blind investors who buy crude and start-up released the mastermind, not previously squeezed out of him all that he can. I would even buy startups with only binding agreement with the founder to work out at least three years on the project after the transaction.

Startup to live. The idea - a good thing, but just come up and give the direction of movement - a little. We must get used to the project. The best projects - those that are made with a soul. Because the system is not there. It appears much later. Until then, the project is alive only in her heart of its creator. And while he, the creator will live in synergy with the project, they will break down the math, making 1 1 = 3. When the system starts to appear, and this is from one to five years depending on the size and complexity of the project, then you can gradually pick up his soul back. The project does not fall apart. Of course, he trembles, but it's hard to talk about the soul, where there are hundreds of people who perceive their mission in the company of each of their.

In any startup should be only one leader. Fathers can be a lot of preachers - even more, but the leader, guru, father - the only one. That's because Microsoft has a Gates at Apple - Jobs. In any successful startup is only one leader, although many more fathers. Success has many fathers are always. But wherever they were, if not followed their leader, trusting his intuition? . But when there is no leader, or start pulling the blanket, or just one doing anything at all will not be. Or be a leader, or soothe their ambitions for greater success. Steer the system to be presented. The main thing to live up to, as a start it will become.

At start-up money to be. Will they be taken out of circulation, from investors or through a bank loan - no matter. But if they do not, there will be no advertising, will not support lower-level employees will not be the means of production. The founder of the idea can work for very long. But the rest - no. Whichever team has been united to stop it from collapse in the event of a shortfall would only further bad situation in the country as a whole. The first CD -Lab employees ( Moonshine, perimeter ) for almost a year working for peanuts while miraculously failed to sell the first game. But they simply had nowhere to go, there was a crisis and lack of money, and in the studio - and the prospect of an interesting job. Families have suffered, because still had nowhere to go.

And, of course, a startup needs a tangible goal. It is difficult to plan and attract employees, if you even myself can not explain what is going to do. You can drown my thoughts in a carnival of fun, but nobody will give money for your work if you do not understand why you did it. Facebook has become of the toy business when the first investor saw in it opportunities for business - communication control of millions of people is a very powerful tool for any business. In fact, Facebook has made the dream of a census and screening of the population of the planet a reality, and then began to sell it to their customers. Perfect marketing tool. But in faktrume I can not see any idea - probably why the creators have a good traffic and have no idea how to make it. Just an interesting project, but in general, nobody waste. Tomorrow comes another such, and will take his place. The market ' is interesting but ' simple and rapidly changing market, interesting only to publishers, but in practice most uninteresting consumer.

Do start-ups, live by them, turn to the system, look for the money. Good luck to you! .

TA Venture is inviting PHP DEVELOPERS

TA Venture is inviting PHP DEVELOPERS to join development team of startup projects.

We are offering great opportunity to acquire experience, unbind your potential.

We are building high load projects with enormous focus on usability.

We are looking for disciplined, open-minded, responsible and proactive developers.

The technical requirements are:.

• 
  PHP, MySQL, HTML Javascript CSS.
  


• 
  Knowing any other programming language is an advantage (Java, C, assembler:) whatever).
  


• 
  Any other outstanding experience is also advantage!.
  


• 
  You must be passionate about development (!!!!) And get pleasure from making. t. hings well.
  


• 
  If you don't have much experience, but have appropriate mind set and are open, we can be your springboard for professional growth, don't be shy!.
  

We offer:.

• 
  Decent salary.
  


• 
  Supportive and warm environment.
  


• 
  Collaboration with professionals from whom you can learn a lot.
  


• 
  Projects to which you can devote your knowledge.
  


• 
  Office in the city center, with own kitchen and lounge room.
  

Please send your CV with subject PHPDevCV to. hr @ taventure. com.

Free promotion - Race

But it's because I started off the bat. Let me explain what's what. Today's post involves a dual theme. First - free or ultra low-cost promotion. The second relay.
Let me you will paint every detail:.

free promotion.
Many believe that the proper SEO is expensive. This is actually a polumif. Those who do it for money tend to support it, those who do not hear about CEOs earning puzomerki quite a time, or not paying a dime. What is it? . Here for example, my real situation, this month is my b. Life log Itshnika. from scratch, using only white SEO earned TIC 10 and got some delicious items on low demand. Of all the expenditures spent less than 80 p. for the purchase of four links with blogs particles 20-30.
But I think that they could not fly because it was possible to do without them.
What have I done (links to descriptions in this blog ).

a. Bought a zero domain, hosting, and filled stanalone blog.

One or both? .

2. filled content.

Content is the most important.

3. Posted by blog in the PS system.

Tell me who you are and I'll tell you who you are - Adding a site to search engines.

4. Comment, and referred to your blog in forums and working SO.

BlogPost and Dofollow.

5. Promoted via twitter.

How to increase blog traffic by 200-300 visitors per day?.

6. created a mailing list subscribe.
(By the way should plan to write about this topic ).
7. Posted in Tops and Catalogs.
(ie in the same link as item 3).
8. Used the plugin All in SEO pack.

Basic settings and steps.

For shopping, I used reference. service. Blogun. And took exile for the lowest price with the maximum rates.

That's all the basic details. I forgot when, shall add later.

relay.

And now the baton. Tell us your most successful and bezzatratny way to promote your site. :) That's all the relay. Write a comment if you continue with the baton. And remember that my blog is positive to the commentators, and it is dofollow, komentiruyte:)!.

Although the flasher, and seized, but Mikhalkov had...

Netflix announced that it has signed a $ 1.2 billion. contracts for streaming video. Rate increase - in late 2009, there were a $ 115 million. The growth of an incredible ( Netflix shares a rod into the mountain, and so, and then there was talk that they want to buy Apple).
All major producing content ( films, TV, music) studio. in a situation. When they need to change the business model. They begin to understand that swims past them a new source of income.
Recent studies (. cm. Say Media Report. ) Show that over a third! . Specifically, 22% significantly reduce the time watching TV programs (the group 'On demanders'), while 13 % do They stopped to watch TV (Group 'Opt outs'). Yes, and the rest ( third group) love him do not feed.

There - are rebuilt to the interests of those who pay for content ( because they understand that things change ).
And we simply cut a sheep ( well, at least by 1% rather than 100%).

Tracking the spread of influenza

Alla Zabrovskaya, director of public affairs for Google Russia.

Every year, flu kills hundreds of thousands of people, and millions suffer from it. Early detection of epidemics enables physicians to react quickly to the situation and save lives. Several years ago a group of Google engineers began working on models of aggregate queries, which can be like a mirror reflecting global trends and show what is happening around us. They reflect on the fact whether these models tell us, for example, or reducing the development of influenza activity in a particular country for a certain period of time.

service. Google Flu Trends. - Statistics of the spread of flu - was first launched in the U.S. in November 2008 and has established itself as a useful tool to assess the extent of influenza activity in a particular country in a real-time. Ability to monitor the dynamics of the epidemic has been helpful to zdravohranitelnyh organizations, doctors and ordinary users.

Today we are announcing the launch of this service in 16 countries, and hope that it will help health facilities to predict new outbreaks and to fight epidemics. Google Flu Trends uses. model based on the history of requests made for a long time, and compares them with the data provided. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

In Russia, Google Flu Trends service is available in a pilot version. Despite the fact that to date the data was not backed by official statistics, we present an early version of the product and hope that it will provide the added source of information.

Many organizations working in health care, doctors are now using surveillance to track the development of epidemics. There may be a legitimate question -. why do we need to assess the cumulative search queries? . At the moment, Google Flu Trends data cover a range of countries and are updated every day, which can be a good complement to existing methods of monitoring.

For epidemiologists, this is a convenient way for early detection of disease outbreaks, which would reduce the number of cases. If, under certain conditions, a new strain of influenza virus, there is a likelihood of a pandemic with millions of deaths (as happened, for example,. 1918. ). Our data on the prevalence of influenza enable healthcare organizations and medical personnel in a timely manner to respond to seasonal epidemics and pandemics.

The aggregation of billions of requests since 2003, has created a workable model. This is an excellent example of beneficial use aggregated anonymous data. Statistics of search queries can be a source of valuable information on trends in the economy, health care and other areas. We have the tools. Google Insights for Search. , Which allows you to track the popularity level of a query - at different times and in different regions. So you can get ' inside look ' at the different areas of public interest. In the future we want to offer other opportunities to use these data for the common good.

The huge scale gives the user requests is unprecedented in scope picture of the world around us. John Battelle (. John Battelle). suggested that, in aggregate form requests users - it is ' a symbol of mankind's intention '. He argued that the database is able to reflect the needs and desires of people. Google Flu Trends - one of the examples of how queries can not only reflect what is happening in the world, but also to become an assistant in the fight against global challenges.

Municipal wireless networks as an argument in the battles for the ' neutral networks '

Larry Lessig. ), According to information publication The Register.
' Last Mile ' on the basis of the municipal wireless network deprives operators like AT. At the present time there is an avalanche growth of municipal wireless mesh- networks, and the area covered by them often exceeds the area occupied by the city blocks. This allows you to connect a network of neighboring cities, creating, thus, continuous communication, which is independent from the management of commercial companies, said Lessig.
However, this process is still slower than what I would like Lessig. Recently, Google announced the launch of the operation of free Wi-Fi network in the small town of Mountain View. In this work at the search giant had gone almost a year. A municipality intending to deploy their own networks in general talk about the planned work over the years.
However, in case of failure to legitimize the idea of ​​' neutral networks ', only the municipal Wi-Fi- access, in some ways similar to the principles of open architecture operating system Linux, can withstand the monopolistic attitudes of large telecommunications companies. Because only the free network will ensure the normal development of young companies in the field of telecommunications services without having to own a huge infrastructure or substantial initial capital.
However, the development of own urban Wi-Fi networks as long as is ' with difficulty '. Large operators are spending a lot of money on lobbying prohibitions of such projects. The main argument put forward the thesis of ' dishonesty ' competition of commercial companies that rely only on themselves, with municipal services, relying on the resources of the state level.
Source:. Nag. ru.

Google launches translation of the Bolshoi Ballet

On March 11 broadcast live ballet performances will begin at a special YouTube- channel.
Bolshoi Theatre of Russia jointly with. Google. And c cinema chain Pathe Live and Bel Air Media, began live broadcasts of ballet performances on the Internet. On March 11, 2012 they can be viewed at. YouTube. channel of the theater at:. www. youtube. com / bolshoi.
Now the Russian ballet lovers can join the spectators around the world already have the ability to watch live broadcasts of the Bolshoi Theatre in cinema halls in their countries.
The main goal of this international project, launched in March 2010, has become a significant expansion of the Grand Theatre audience by accelerating its integration into the global theatrical and musical context.
During the last two years in theaters dozen countries have conducted nine events ballets, as well as gala concert marking the opening of the main building of the Bolshoi Theatre after restoration. The total number of spectators attending ballet performances broadcast to over 2.2 million people.
...
March 11, Russian viewers will see the online broadcast of the ballet ...
Also in 2012, the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater and broadcast live to audiences of millions, will include performances of ...
As noted in a press release of the theater, ballet events are held all project participants at no cost.

Source:. aif. ru.