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Last Updated on: 16th May 2025, 01:56 pm
I just wrote an article about how much China dominates the world solar PV market. Though, looking through the Snapshot of Global PV Markets report from the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Program (IEA PVPS), a few other charts stood out to me at least as much as the ones showing China’s dominance — and China’s not even close to the top of those.
I’m always keen to see who is leading a market in relative terms, not just absolute terms, and the IEA PVSP provided that as well.
In terms of cumulatively installed solar power capacity in 2024, the best solar PV market in the world was the Netherlands, with Australia and Germany getting silver and bronze. The Netherlands doesn’t…



