Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Germany Installed 2 GW of Solar PV in Q4 2011 — The U.S. Installed 1.7 GW in All of 2011

Germany Installed 2 GW of Solar PV in Q4 2011 — The U.S. Installed 1.7 GW in All of 2011: pAnd the Germans did it at roughly half the price. In the lead up to another 15% reduction in Germany’s feed-in tariff (the price paid for solar electricity fed into the grid), the German solar industry finished 2011 off with a bang — installing 2,000 megawatts of solar photovoltaic systems in the fourth quarter. Let’s [...]/p