European Photovoltaic "barometer index continued to decline

Global PV market, the balance of power is changing - market focus gradually shifted from Europe to Asia and the Americas market - which is the latest in Europe statistics highlighted. According to the EurObserv'ER institutions the latest "PV barometer" - tracking the global renewable energy trend - that the European PV market situation is not as good as past.

2012 new photovoltaic system installed capacity remained stable at about 30GWp, but this is mainly emerging markets make up from 2011 to 2012, the European market fell by 25% in PV installed capacity. According to the to EurObserv'ER data released, although solar inverter power generation accounted for more than 2% of the total electricity consumption in Europe - last year was approximately 68.1 TWh of total electricity consumption in Europe - 2012 PV capacity reached 16.5 GWp 2011 the photovoltaic grid installed capacity of up to 22GWp a substantial downward trend compared to 2011.

According to the statistics, the per capita installed capacity of PV systems in Europe 136.3 Wp. Not surprisingly, Germany and Italy, two "the photovoltaic pioneer" among the forefront of the national disaggregated statistical data location, German per capita installed capacity of 399.5 Wp per capita installed capacity in Italy, compared with 269 Wp, Belgium trailing installed capacity of 240 Wp thereafter.

In addition, the Czech Republic, Greece and Bulgaria, the per capita photovoltaic power generation system installed capacity is high. PV capacity plummeted, but the the photovoltaic solar grid tie inverter electricity consumption of the European market in 2012 is still higher than the previous year, an increase of 50.1%, and is three times the electricity consumption in 2010, the cumulative installed capacity reached 68.6 gWp called Europe to lead the global photovoltaic glorious period of the revolution. In addition, EurObserv'ER 2012 installed capacity decline attributed to the various types of taxes - many traceability tax - driven by policy tightening state governments levy and network costs.