The Danish Energy Agency is expected to reserve up to 2.4 MW of its 20 MW tender for German installations. In return Germany is planning to open its tenders for the neighboring country.

The weak performance of the German solar market continues, with Federal Network Agency reporting that 83.242 MW of PV was added to the country’s grid in January. Nine new ground mounted PV power plants were registered in the month.

German solar and storage installer Praml has completed two of the first installations of Tesla’s 6.4 kWh residential battery system, the Powerwall, in the country. Praml has installed two Tesla Powerwall systems reporting that the install took a team of two around five hours.

The number of new stationary battery systems connected to solar arrays on German homes and businesses in 2015 far outnumber the number of electric vehicles that rolled onto roads. A new study has revealed the result demonstrating that despite the German government’s official target of one million new electric cars by 2020, solar+storage is gaining significant traction in the market.

Funding for battery storage for small solar PV systems in Germany ceased at the end of 2015. The Federal Government is said to still be working on the new program, which should start “as early as possible in 2016,” and end in 2018. When and how exactly the support will work is still anyone’s guess, however.

The possibility to register as an interested party for the EU Commission’s expiry review of minimum prices and import volumes for Chinese solar PV manufacturers expired on Monday. Many more companies and organizations registered than in 2013, the majority of which are based in Germany.

Germany’s Federal Network Agency has released the results of its third solar project tender, resulting in 204 MW of capacity. Among the successful bids, three came from individual investors, two from registered cooperatives and three from small privately held businesses.

The acquisition has saved all 42 jobs at Platinum’s German headquarters, according to the insolvency liquidator. The inverter manufacturer will solely focus on R&D going forward.

Just 45 MW of new solar PV capacity was added in October, according to the German Federal Network Agency. The FIT tariffs will, as a consequence of the weakened demand, not change in December. For the first 10 months of the year, newly registered systems total 1.174 GW.

German specialized solar battery manufacturer Sonnenbatteries has unveiled its new concept of a virtual network that can pool solar+storage arrays and trade surplus energy on the wholesale market. The goal is to build a virtual community of solar+storage owners and to participate in peer-to-peer energy exchange and trading.