The news from the Sulzemoos-based distributor and system integrator comes amid the blackest month in the history of the German solar sector, with manufacturing giant Q-Cells and a host of smaller companies having recently filed for bankruptcy.

Phoenix – like the developer Solarhybrid, which filed for insolvency on 20 March – singles out the recent cuts to Germany’s feed-in tariff (FIT) as the root of its problems.

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