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Utility-scale plants will drive the market until 2021

Special tenders adopted by the government will stimulate PV expansion in Germany for the next few years. The German market could push 4 GW again in 2019. Experts see a bright future ahead, with subsidy-free solar beginning to raise its head and a healthy market for large rooftop installations.

By

Sandra Enkhardt

13 May 2019

Image: Max Solar

Germany got off to a roaring start this year. Installers and EPCs are busy trying to bring plants online before the next stage of feed-in tariff reductions bites. This boom was triggered by politics, rather than another slump in prices or the presence of supply overhangs.The total expansion by nearly 1 GW in January and …

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