Indeed, and it was highly successful creating an economy of scale for PV and driving prices down (which is the main difference to nuclear, where - despite subsidies - cost always increased). Guaranteed feed-in-tariff was also reduced accordingly and is now much lower than it used to be and does not apply to all systems anymore.
Totally agree, that is why Germany now has some of the lowest energy prices in the developed world, which greatly helps in keeping its industry competitive and maintain the viability of energy intensive manufacturing inside of Germany.
You get electricity at the same price in Japan and at half the price in the US. Message to the policy-maker: just be resource-rich. How exactly do you implement this?
The electricity prices have done enormous harm to the German economy, the energy transitions is completely botched and has played a serious part in the persistent German recession.
