Environmental News Network: A core facet of Chancellor Merkel's historic "Energiewende" clean energy transition, Germany has led the world in driving adoption of solar energy technology and systems. Although it is now pulling back hard on incentives, the market momentum created by its precedent-setting solar energy feed-in tariff (FiT) persists. Three national solar energy records were set in Germany over the past two weeks. According to the Fraunhofer ISE solar energy research institute: - Solar met more than 50 percent of...