The deployment of solar storage units in German is set to boom over the next few years in what has been hailed a “quiet revolution” for the PV industry.
A report by Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), the federal government’s foreign trade and inward investment arm, cited figures suggesting sales of solar storage systems in Germany will rise from 6,000 last year to 100,000 by 2018.
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GTAI said a combination of growing volumes of PV capacity and falling feed-in tariffs would spur the predicted growth.
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