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Germany installed 1,040 MW of new PV capacity in April, according to the latest figures from the Bundesnetzagentur. This compares with 881 MW in April 2023. In the first four months of this year, newly installed PV capacity amounted to 4.98 GW in Germany, compared to around 3.71 GW in the same period a year earlier.
The country’s cumulative installed solar capacity stood at 87.57 GW at the end of April 2024. To reach its 2030 solar target of 215 GW, the country will need to add at least 1.55 GW of new solar power every month.
The Bundesnetzagentur said rooftop PV systems deployed under Germany’s feed-in tariff system were responsible for 572.2 MW of the new additions in April. Another 323.6 MW came from PV projects developed under the national utility-scale solar tender. It noted that developers also installed an additional 16 MW of rooftop PV systems in April, outside of any incentive schemes.
About 1.1 GW MW of the PV capacity deployed in the first four months of this year was installed in the southern state of Bavaria. Baden-Württemberg is in second place with 686.1 MW, followed by Saxony with 651.7 MW.
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