Germany’s Solar Photovoltaics Market – Quite the Ride

As we’ve learned in our last monthly webinar, Germany is undergoing some rapid changes in its adoption of photovoltaics.  Many people say that the huge feed-in tariffs that created an enormous influx of investors a few years ago didn’t need to be quite as aggressive, and thus wouldn’t have caused such a shock to the market when it was cut to a  fraction of what it was.  But what will be the overall effect of the German PV market’s “sobering up?” I predict a “soft landing” (rather than a crash) and a continued, steady interest in the subject. 

Milk The Sun is a group that agrees.  As readers will see, this is a very professional attempt to bring together developer, land owners, and investors, forming an extremely efficient way for the market to keep on rolling along – and to reach into other countries, like the U.S.  They called me last week and want to establish some sort of cooperative relationship, which I’m more than happy to support.

In related news, German manufacturing giant Bosch is exiting the PV manufacturing market, citing oversupply.  Given China’s exponential and unflagging growth in this space, it’s easy to see Bosch’s reasoning.