Photovoltaics made in Germany

August 2015

Leading PV Manufacturers in Germany

Value Chain
Silicon

No.

Company

Locations

Wacker Chemie

Burghausen, Nnchritz

PV Crystalox Solar Silicon

Production
Empl.1
Capacity [MWp]
52,000t

700

Bitterfeld-Wolfen

1,800t

125

Schmid Polysilicon Production

Schwarze Pumpe

180t

85

Hanwha Q-Cells

Bitterfeld-Wolfen

200

799

Bluecell GmbH

Arnstadt

100

40

SCP Solar

Prenzlau

280

664*

10

SOLARWATT

Dresden

200

250

11

Astronergy

Frankfurt (Oder)

300

280

13

Axitec GmbH

Bblingen

120

15

14

asola Technologies (TUSAI Holding)

Erfurt

40

10

15

Heckert Solar

Chemnitz

170

195

16

Hanwha Q-Cells

Bitterfeld-Wolfen

120

1231*

17

Solar Direct Group

Knigswartha

25

n/a

18

ALGATEC Solar

Prsen, Grorschen

25

23

19

Sunset Solar

Lbichau

40

40

20

Alfasolar GmbH

Hannover

40

30

21

ML& S Man. GmbH

Greifswald

40

500

22

Solarnova GmbH

Wedel

30

20

23

GSS

Korbuen

20

36

24

AxSun Solar

Laupheim-Baustetten

20

60

27

Q-mo solar

Teltow

<1

28

Sunware

Duisburg

n/a

n/a

29

Soluxtec

Bitburg

n/a

55

30

SI Module

Freiburg

25

25

31

No-vo GmbH

Laubusch

10

15

32

SolarWorld

Freiberg

750/1030/730

1046

33

Solarworld

Arnstadt

0/700/200

751

CPV

34

Soitec

Freiburg

70

175

CIS

36

Smartenergy Renewables Deutschland

Luckenwalde

120*

41

37

Solibro (Hanergy)

Bitterfeld-Wolfen

110

400

39

Bosch Solar CIS Tech

Brandenburg

15

150

35

AVANCIS (CNBM International)

Torgau

120*

240

40

Manz CIGS Technology GmbH

Schwbisch Hall

120

CdTe

41

Calyxo (Solar Fields LLC)

Bitterfeld-Wolfen

85

150

GaAs

42

Azur Space Solar Power

Heilbronn

300*

150*

OPV

43

Heliatek

Dresden

63

44

Solarzentrum Allgu

Altdorf-Biessenhofen

25

60

Cell

Module

Fully integrated

CIGS

PV &

Thermal

1) Current total number of employees at respective locations

Source: Germany Trade & Invest, Information provided by the respective company, August 2015

The Industry and Market

Germany is home to around 44 manufacturers of silicon, wafers, cells, and modules. In addition, there are over 200 PV
material and equipment suppliers, more
than 100 balance-of-system (BOS) component manufacturers, more than 50 PV
research institutes and hundreds of project

development,

system

integration

and installation companies. The German

PV industry currently employs a workforce of around 100 thousand people.
With the own-consumption model growing successfully in Germany, the German
PV sector is about to develop a customer
base independent of feed-in tariff-based
subsidy

schemes. Independence

from

subsidies will help make the PV market

even more stable in the future. New PV
sales strategies, system configurations,
and integration processes required in the
future grid-parity environment are intrinsic components of the specialist expertise
currently being developed in Germany.

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