The German PV specialist has stuck by its target of reporting an operating profit on 117MW of installed capacity for the whole of 2013.

Through the first three quarters of the year, however, Solarstrom installed just 44.4MW and was staring at an operating loss of €2.8m ($3.8m).

Solarstrom’s earnings were buoyed significantly by its profitable solar O&M business – which oversees nearly 34,000 PV systems globally, or 8GW of capacity – and its PV-generation unit.