BSW figures show PV capacity additions plunged 55% in 2013 to 3.3GW, down from 7.6GW in 2012 when Germany held the world's top spot in new installations. It has since been overshadowed by growth in markets such as the US and China.
While prices for solar installations dropped by roughly a quarter during the past two years, solar support was halved in the same period as a reform to Germany’s support mechanism led to a much faster degression of feed-in tariff rates.
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