"Germany hosts numerous leading module manufacturing companies in photovoltaics. It thus features one of the largest market for PV material manufacturers. Significant business opportunities exist at all stages of the PV supply chain. Germany is the world’s largest PV market with more than 17.3 GWp of cumulated PV Power in 2010, 7.4 GWp of whichwere newly installed in 2010 alone." (Quoted from paper)