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A wrench in the works

Looking back at the past year, the renewables sector has seen two extremes. In Germany, disparities were triggered in part by the recently passed amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). For solar PV in particular, the pendulum will swing in favor of installers of small systems in the near term, writes Martin Schachinger of pvXchange. For installations up to 30 kWp, the new law has cleared market barriers.

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pv magazine

11 Feb 2021

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Germany’s 2021 EEG places a hurdle at 300 kWp for rooftop PV systems. While projects of this size and above are not required to participate in the public tender process, abstaining means that they automatically forego remuneration for 50% of the energy they feed into the grid. This new option seems so unattractive that many …

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