Germany installs 211MW PV capacity in February

Germany registered over 211MW of newly installed PV capacity in February, according to new figures from the German Federal Network Agency.

Although this is a decrease from January when 275MW were added to the German grid, this is a slight increase from the previous February when 200MW were added.

Under recent amendments to Germany’s solar FiT programme, incentives are only granted to the first 10MW of a PV installation. Consequently, the largest PV system registered in February was an 8.2MW solar park installed in the northern state of Brandenburg.

A recent EuPD Research report said Germany may not make as large a contribution to installation figures this year as it did last year. EuPD expects only 3.9GW of new capacity to be installed in the country in 2013.