Is the German utility business model dead or dying? This outcome would at least appear credible given the conclusions emerging from the 2nd Inverter and PV System Technology Forum 2012, held recently in Berlin. With the country set to phase out its nuclear generation capacity, to be replaced with a major investment programme in renewables, it would seem that the growing emergence of domestic PV will skew the current - largely centralised - electricity production scenario. Indeed, according to trade group the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), further solar expansion in Germany will see its share in the country's electricity mix increase by 70% by 2016 from around 4% this year. Furthermore, BSW-Solar believes, by 2020 the solar industry is to increase its share of electricity consumption in Germany to more than 10%.
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