Germany’s PV installations in January 2014 have totaled 193 MW, which is 82 MW less compared to 275 MW installed in January of last year, says Mercom Capital Group based on the latest report from the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur).
Cumulative installations in Germany are at 35.9 GW as of January 2014. Germany installed a total of 7.4 GW in 2010, 7.5 GW in 2011, 7.6 GW in 2012 and 3.3 GW in 2013. In January a total of 5,970 systems were installed with the average system size of about 32.40 kW.
The Federal Network Agency has announced new degression rate of 1.00 percent. The tariffs for the period from 1 February to 1 April 2014 will fall the first of each month, according to the report.
In Japan, domestic shipments of cells and modules in Q4 2013 (calendar year) totaled 2,043 MW a negative 1.5 percent growth QoQ, but a strong 230 percent growth compared to same quarter last year, according to JPEA and Mercom Capital Group.
Japan’s total domestic shipments in calendar year 2013 was 7,505 MW compared to 2,467 MW in calendar year 2012. Shipments doubled in Q4 2013 compared to Q4 2012 but there was a slight decrease in QoQ growth.
There was sudden rise in import of cells and modules due to the increase demand generated because of Japan’s generous feed-in-tariffs (FiT). Solar cell and module imports totaled 1,423 MW in Q4 2013 compared to 1,487 MW in the last quarter. Locally made cells and modules totaled just 619 MW this quarter.
The Netherlands had a cumulative installed PV capacity of 665.4 MW at of the end of 2013, according to new statistics published by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. The number of PV systems registered had reached a cumulative capacity of 455 MW as of the end of September 2013.