Featured in Europe’s solar reshuffle – 11-2014

Hollands tortoise to Germanys hare

Dutch PV market: boom and bust is a phrase that is heard all too often in relation to PV markets. By contrast, solar in the Netherlands has been quietly building and now appears to be on the pathway to strong, if not world-beating annual PV capacity numbers.

By

Jonathan Gifford

27 Oct 2014

A €1 billion ($1.28 billion) annual industry with 1 GW of installed capacity: For many in the PV industry, the growth of the Dutch PV market has come as a surprise. Long stalled due to a lack of government support, the Netherlands was seen as a relative backwater for PV – despite the fact that a number …

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