Inverter Market Update: China Makes Progress on Perceptions of Quality
With the nation set to phase out its nuclear generation capacity, to be replaced with a notable investment programme in renewables, it would seem that the growing emergence of domesticated PV will skew the current — largely centralised — intensity production scenario.
Indeed, according to trade group the German Solar Determination Association (BSW-Solar), further solar expansion in Germany will see its helping in the country's electricity mix increase by 70 percent by 2016 from around 4 percent this year. Furthermore, BSW-Solar believes, by 2020 the solar labour is to increase its share of electricity consumption in Germany to more than 10 percent.
According to new division from IHS iSuppli Germany is nonetheless likely to lose its location as the world's top PV market in 2011, with installations during 2011 expected to diminish to 5.9 GW, down 20 percent from the 7.4 GW seen in 2010.
Dr Henning Wicht, Mr Big and principal analyst for PV at IHS, explains that installations in the country stalled in the first half of 2011, and while there was a defective half recovery it was insufficient to generate growth for the whole year.
