With
sweeping
amendments
to
Germany’s
Renewable
Energy
Act
(EEG)
poised
to
pass
in
the
upper
house
Bundesrat
on
11
May,
finalising
a
tough
new
regime
of
regular
feed-in
tariff
cuts,
German
consumers
once
again
raced
to
install
PV
systems
to
lock
in
present
rates.
Berlin
has
already
taken
steps
to
tilt
the
market
away
from
ground-mounted
arrays,
so
companies
like
SolarWorld,
which
has
one
of
the
most
respected
brand
names
in
the
PV
business,
benefitted
from
the
surge
in
rooftop
installations.
The
Bonn-based
company
chalked
up
a
group
profit
of
€7.2m…