"Germany hosts numerous leading manufacturing companies in photovoltaics. It thus features one of the largest markets for PV equipment 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 which were newly installed in 2010 alone. German PV equipment manufacturers sold machinery worth € 2.55 billion in 2010." (Quoted from paper)