Featured in Approaching the peak – 04-2013

The secondary solar market

Interview: SAG Solarstrom has sold five German field PV plants with a total output of approximately 12 MW to an investor. The systems built in the years 2007 and 2008 were technically and legally evaluated by the SAG Solarstrom Group and then purchased and restructured by a leasing company. Chairman of the board Karl Kuhlmann sees an interesting new field of business in such restructuring of solar investments on the secondary market.

pv magazine: How much of SAG Solarstrom sales in the future will be accounted for by this new business field of purchasing, restructuring and sales? Karl Kuhlmann: Well first of all, we only began this last year and determined that this type of thing actually works. At the moment I would be reluctant to specify …

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