Germany installed almost 3 GW of solar in 2018

PV demand grew 68% year-on-year from the level seen in 2017 as Germany’s cumulative installed solar generation capacity reached 45.92 GW. Germany’s Federal Network Agency the Bundesnetagentur has reported 2,960 MW of newly installed PV capacity was added in Germany last year, with 376.5 MW added in December alone. That means the German solar market grew 68% year on year, with all major market segments seeing big rises in new installations as the nation his its government-set 2.5 GW annual growth target for the first time since 2013. The statistics for last month included 156.3 MW from 55 ground-mounted plants. Among those projects, only 15.1 MW were accounted for by installations up to 750 kW in size, which are not developed through tenders.