The sum comes on top of€100m Germany’s government has already provided since 2010 via the so-called“PV innovation alliance” that supported 26 different R&D projects.
Support from theprogramme is channelled into areas in which Germany is perceived to still havean edge, such as system solutions, innovative production techniques orcost-cutting PV production machinery, the German solar industry association BSWSolar said.
“With this, we will beable to develop even more efficient and inexpensive solar products and systemsolutions,” BSW Solar general manager Carsten Körnig said.
