In the first three months of this year, Germany installed 2.65 GW of new photovoltaic capacity, up from around 1.97 GW in the same period last year. In March alone, the country's newly installed photovoltaic capacity reached 944 MW.
Some 598 MW of PV capacity deployed in the first quarter of this year was installed in the southern state of Bavaria. North Rhine-Westphalia came in second with 397.6 MW, by Baden-Wurttemberg with 380.8 MW.
As of the end of March, the cumulative installed capacity of photovoltaics in Germany had reached 70.1 GW. To meet the 2030 solar target of 215 GW, the country needs to add at least 1.55 GW of solar every month.