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Introduction to SolarPowerfortheWorld 13<br />
The following list provides facts and figures by country for overall<br />
installations by end 2012 (parentheses show the additional capacity<br />
installed in 2012; all figures are in GW). The third column shows the<br />
electricity generated in 2012 in TWh (1000 GWh or billion kWh):<br />
GW GW 2012 TWh in 2012<br />
• Germany 32.4 (7.6) 25<br />
• Italy 17 (3.5) 20<br />
• USA 7.8 (3.5) 10<br />
• China 7 (5.5)<br />
• Japan 6.5 (2.0)<br />
• Spain 4.4 (0) 8<br />
• France 4 (1.2) 4<br />
• Belgium 2.6 (0.5)<br />
• Czech Republic 2.1<br />
• Australia 2<br />
• UK 2<br />
• Greece 1.1<br />
• India 1<br />
• Ontario (Canada) 0.6<br />
• Ukraine 0.5<br />
• Austria 0.45<br />
• Switzerland 0.3<br />
• Denmark 0.25<br />
• Portugal 0.2<br />
• Netherlands 0.15<br />
• Mexico 0.04<br />
• Morocco 0.02<br />
• South Africa 0.00<br />
The PV markets went in the second half of the last decade<br />
through a kind of “gold rush” period. This may explain some of the<br />
market anomalies that originated during this period. The balance at<br />
the end of 2012 had some surprising features. For instance, there<br />
was the strong leadership of the German and Italian markets. In<br />
reality, the anomaly was not that these two markets stood so high