Growth in China, Japan and an awakened US, together with a still healthy European market, saw the world’s total installed capacity rise to 101-GW in 2012, according to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA).
The association said about 30 to 32-GW of new solar power capacity was completed worldwide last year, compared with almost 30-GW in 2011. Its new figures revealed a shift in the global market demand as emerging economies picked up some of the slack caused by a slowdown in European countries.
Countries outside Europe added more than 13-GW of solar capacity last year, compared with less than 8-GW in 2011, driven by China, the US and Japan, the data show.
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