Germany’s Federal Network Agency – the Bundesnetagentur – has reported 2,960 MW of newly installed PV capacity was added in Germany last year, with 376.5 MW added in December alone.

That means the German solar market grew 68% year on year, with all major market segments seeing big rises in new installations as the nation his its government-set 2.5 GW annual growth target for the first time since 2013.

The statistics for last month included 156.3 MW from 55 ground-mounted plants. Among those projects, only 15.1 MW were accounted for by installations up to 750 kW in size, which are not developed through tenders.

Some 220.2 MW of solar rooftops were registered in December and 512 kW under the tenants’ solar power supply scheme. The full year saw 305 plants added with a total capacity of 6.8 MW under the scheme, falling well short of an annual cap of 500 MW for such projects.