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2020 was off to a good start, and then…

This year’s retrospective kicks off with a line that sounds like it’s right out of a pop song: Last spring, it all felt so right. And yet, what followed was not only one of the hottest years on record, but also one of the craziest in recent decades. This month and next, Martin Schachinger of pvXchange looks back at how European PV markets have developed under the pall of the pandemic and climate change.

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pv magazine

07 Dec 2020

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Source: pvXchange.com

Mild weather rang in the new year and business was excellent for installers everywhere. The result in Germany, however, was a looming threat that the upper limit of PV capacity eligible for incentives under the country’s renewable energy act (Erneubare Energien Gesetz, or EEG) would quickly be reached. Some forecasts projected this would happen as …

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