A history of support for solar photovoltaics in Germany

摘要: Along with Japan and the US, Germany is now recognized as a country at the forefront of the drive for photovoltaic (PV) industry development. However, the journey to this current status and the supporting policies that guided it involved a rocky path with many lessons being learned along the way. This chapter outlines four key stages in the life of German solar power since the early 1990s, from the inception of the Thousand Roofs programme, through the years of non-integrated regional support, and onto the 100,000 Roofs programme. Finally, it will describe the evolution of the Renewable Energy Law towards inclusion of a pure feed-in tariff scheme under this law.